Meliton Solovyov

Life

Born

26 October 1897

Ordained deacon

24 November 1921

Ordained priest

23 January 1922

Monastic tonsure

16 July 1970

Made archimandrite

18 July 1970

Consecrated bishop

26 July 1970

Made archbishop

19 April 1980

Died

4 November 1986

Sees

1. 26 July 1970 – 19 April 1980

   Bishop of Tikhvin

   Vicar of Leningrad · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 19 April 1980 – 4 November 1986

   Archbishop of Tikhvin

   Vicar of Leningrad · Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 26 July 1970 by:

• Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978
• Filaret Denysenko Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus'-Ukraine, b. 1929
• Aleksii Konoplyov Metropolitan of Kalinin and Kashin, 1910–1988
• Leontii Gudimov Metropolitan of Donetsk and Slovyansk, 1928–1992
• Feodosii Protsyuk Metropolitan of Omsk and Tara, 1927–2016
• Filaret Vakhromeyev Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk, 1935–2021
• Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 10 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Meliton Solovyov Archbishop of Tikhvin consecrated 26 July 1970
2. Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978 consecrated 10 July 1960
3. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
4. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
5. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
6. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
7. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
8. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
9. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
10. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
11. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 5

• 19 December 1971Serapheim Rodionov Archbishop of Zurich, 1905–1997
• 16 November 1975Juvenal Tarasov Former Schema-Metropolitan of Kursk and Rylsk, 1929–2013
• 14 March 1976Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• 19 June 1977Isidore Kirichenko Metropolitan of Ekaterinodar and Kuban, 1941–2020
• 23 April 1978Khrisanf Chepil Metropolitan of Kirov and Sloboda, 1937–2011

Sources

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