Nikifor Efimov

Life

Born

1888

Ordained deacon

1921

Ordained priest

1922

Made archimandrite

March 1925

Consecrated bishop

21 March 1926

Retired

13 December 1930

Died

1 September 1937

Sees

1. 21 March 1926 – 25 April 1928

   Bishop of Khabarovsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 25 April 1928 – 31 January 1929

   Bishop of Kotelnich

   Vicar of Vyatka · Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 31 January 1929 – 13 December 1930

   Bishop of Pyatigorsk and Prikumsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 13 December 1930 – 1 September 1937

   Former Bishop of Pyatigorsk and Prikumsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 21 March 1926 by:

• Evsevii Rozhdestvenskii Archbishop of Shadrinsk, 1887–1937
• Heracles Popov Bishop of Penza, 1875–1938

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 9 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Nikifor Efimov Bishop of Pyatigorsk and Prikumsk consecrated 21 March 1926
2. Evsevii Rozhdestvenskii Archbishop of Shadrinsk, 1887–1937 consecrated 28 March 1920
3. Tikhon Belavin Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1865–1925 consecrated 19 October 1897
4. Palladii Rayev-Pisarev Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1827–1898 consecrated 18 December 1866
5. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
6. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
7. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
8. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
9. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
10. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Sources

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