Basil Krivoshein

Life

Born

30 June 1900

Monastic tonsure

1926

Ordained deacon

21 May 1951

Ordained priest

22 May 1951

Elected bishop

26 May 1958 (appointed vicar with the title of Volokolamsk; consecrated 1959-06-14)

Made archimandrite

1959

Consecrated bishop

14 June 1959

Made archbishop

21 July 1960

Died

22 September 1985

Sees

1. 14 June 1959 – 31 May 1960

   Bishop of Volokolamsk

   Vicar of Moscow · Exarch of Western Europe · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 31 May 1960 – 21 July 1960

   Bishop of Brussels and Belgium

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 21 July 1960 – 22 September 1985

   Archbishop of Brussels and Belgium

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 14 June 1959 by:

• Nicholas Eryomin Metropolitan of Korsun, 1892–1985
• Anthony Bloom Metropolitan of Sourozh, 1914–2003

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. Basil Krivoshein Archbishop of Brussels and Belgium consecrated 14 June 1959
2. Nicholas Eryomin Metropolitan of Korsun, 1892–1985 consecrated 17 December 1953
3. Boris Vik Metropolitan of Kherson and Odessa, 1906–1965 consecrated 2 April 1944
4. Sergii Stragorodskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1867–1944 consecrated 25 February 1901
5. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
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 2

• 1 November 1960Aleksii van der Mensbrugghe Former Archbishop of Düsseldorf, 1899–1980
• 20 March 1966Dionisii Lukin Bishop of Rotterdam, 1911–1976

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata