Iakov Vecherkov

Life

Born

4 April 1792

Monastic tonsure

22 August 1819

Ordained priest

22 August 1819

Made archimandrite

1 November 1827

Consecrated bishop

27 March 1832

Made archbishop

3 April 1849

Died

20 May 1850

Sees

1. 27 March 1832 – 1847

   Bishop of Saratov and Tsaritsyn

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1847 – 3 April 1849

   Bishop of Novgorod

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 3 April 1849 – 20 May 1850

   Archbishop of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 27 March 1832 by:

• Serapheim Glagolevskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg, Novgorod, Estlandia and Finland, 1757–1843
• Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 5 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Iakov Vecherkov Archbishop of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas consecrated 27 March 1832
2. Serapheim Glagolevskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg, Novgorod, Estlandia and Finland, 1757–1843 consecrated 25 December 1799
3. Platon Levshin Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1737–1812 consecrated 10 October 1770
4. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
5. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
6. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Sources

Also in: Wikidata