Herman Aav

Life

Born

2 September 1878

Ordained deacon

20 September 1904

Ordained priest

26 September 1904

Consecrated bishop

8 July 1923

Made archbishop

13 July 1925

Retired

1 July 1960

Died

14 January 1961

Sees

1. 8 July 1923 – 13 July 1925

   Bishop of Sortavala

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 13 July 1925 – 1957

   Archbishop of Karelia and All Finland

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

3. 1957 – 1 July 1960

   Archbishop of Karelia and All Finland

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 1 July 1960 – 14 January 1961

   Former Archbishop of Karelia and All Finland

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 8 July 1923 by:

• Meletios II Metaxakis Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, 1871–1935
• Nicholas Sakkopoulos Metropolitan of Chalcedon, 1862–1927
• Agathangelos Konstantinides Metropolitan of Ephesus, 1864–1935
• Benjamin I Psomas/Kyriakou Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1871–1946
• Joachim Stroumpes Metropolitan of Chios, Psara and Oinoussa, 1880–1950
• Nikodemos Komnenos/Andreou Metropolitan of Prousa, 1857–1935
• Iakovos Nikolaou-Gingilas Metropolitan of Mytilini, Eressos and Plomarion, 1878–1958
• Cyril Ioannou/Chatzepapademetriou Metropolitan of Rodopolis, 1872–1944
• Alexander Paulus Metropolitan of Tallinn and All Estonia, 1872–1953

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. Herman Aav Archbishop of Karelia and All Finland consecrated 8 July 1923
2. Alexander Paulus Metropolitan of Tallinn and All Estonia, 1872–1953 consecrated 5 December 1920
3. Serapheim Lukoyanov Former Metropolitan of Western Europe, 1879–1959 consecrated 7 September 1914
4. Vladimir Bogoyavlenskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1848–1918 consecrated 13 June 1888
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

Bishops he consecrated 4

• 21 September 1935Alexander Karpin Bishop of Helsinki, 1883–1969
• 27 September 1936Iakov Karp Archbishop of Elba, d. 1943
• 3 October 1937Paul Dmitrovskii Archbishop of Tallinn and Estonia, 1872–1946
• 17 July 1938Alexander Vitols Bishop of Madona, 1876–1942

Sources

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