Victor Oleinik

Life

Born

21 September 1940

Ordained deacon

6 January 1966

Ordained priest

22 October 1967

Made archimandrite

1974

Consecrated bishop

4 December 1988

Made archbishop

25 February 1996

Made metropolitan

8 January 2012

Retired

14 July 2018

Sees

1. 4 December 1988 – 1990

   Bishop of Kalinin and Kashin

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1990 – 25 February 1996

   Bishop of Tver and Kashin

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 25 February 1996 – 8 January 2012

   Archbishop of Tver and Kashin

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 8 January 2012 – 14 July 2018

   Metropolitan of Tver and Kashin

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 14 July 2018 – present

   Former Metropolitan of Tver and Kashin

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 4 December 1988 by:

• Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014
• Serapion Fadeyev Metropolitan of Tula and Belyov, 1933–1999
• Leontii Bondar Metropolitan of Orenburg and Buzuluk, 1913–1999
• Melkhisedek Lebedev Archbishop of Bryansk and Sevsk, 1927–2016
• Platon Udovenko Metropolitan of Feodosiya and Kerch, b. 1940
• Job Tyvonyuk Metropolitan of Chelyabinsk and Zlatoust, 1938–2020
• Juvenal Tarasov Former Schema-Metropolitan of Kursk and Rylsk, 1929–2013
• Agafangel Savvin Metropolitan of Odessa and Izmail, b. 1938
• Valentine Mishchuk Metropolitan of Orenburg and Buzuluk, b. 1940
• Serapheim Tikhonov Archbishop of Penza and Kuznetsy, 1935–2000

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. Victor Oleinik Metropolitan of Tver and Kashin consecrated 4 December 1988
2. Leontii Bondar Metropolitan of Orenburg and Buzuluk, 1913–1999 consecrated 10 August 1956
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 27

• 11 December 1988Anastasii Metkin Former Metropolitan of Simbirsk and Novospasskoye, b. 1944
• 21 July 1989Vladimir Cantarean Metropolitan of Chișinău and Moldova, b. 1952
• 23 July 1989Alexander Kudrjašovs Metropolitan of Riga and All Latvia, b. 1939
• 27 September 1989Alexander Mogilyov Metropolitan of Astana and Kazakhstan, b. 1957
• 29 July 1991Ierofei Sobolev Bishop of Balakhna, 1936–2001
• 25 October 1992Jonah Karpukhin Archbishop of Astrakhan and Kamyzyak, 1941–2020
• 21 July 1993Nikon Mironov Bishop of Kudymkar and Vereshchagino, b. 1960
• 3 October 1993Simon Getya Metropolitan of Oryol and Bolkhov, b. 1949
• 26 March 1994Nektarii Korobov Bishop of Saratov and Volsk, 1942–1994
• 12 September 1995Savva Volkov Archbishop of Tiraspol and Dubăsari, b. 1958
• 15 March 1998Cyril Nakonechnii Metropolitan of Kazan and Tatarstan, b. 1961
• 6 February 2000Merkurii Ivanov Metropolitan of Rostov and Novocherkassk, b. 1964
• 26 November 2000Feofan Ashurkov Metropolitan of Kazan and Tatarstan, 1947–2020
• 14 August 2003Benjamin Zaritskii Metropolitan of Orenburg and Saraktash, 1953–2023
• 19 August 2003Longin Korchagin Metropolitan of Simbirsk and Novospasskoye, b. 1961
• 7 July 2005Ignatii Punin Bishop of Minusinsk and Kuraginsk, b. 1973
• 27 September 2006Marcel Vetrov Bishop of Tsarskoye Selo, 1952–2019
• 2 January 2011Filaret Kucherov Metropolitan of Lviv and Halych, b. 1972
• 12 June 2011Paul Fokin Metropolitan of Khanty-Mansiysk and Surgut, b. 1956
• 21 September 2011Adrian Ulyanov Bishop of Rzhev and Toropets, b. 1951
• 22 April 2012Barnabas Baranov Bishop of Karasuk and Ordynskoye, b. 1965
• 22 May 2012Mstislav Dyachina Bishop of Tikhvin and Lodeinoye Pole, b. 1967
• 25 November 2012Filaret Gavrin Bishop of Chistopol and Nizhnekamsk, b. 1973
• 27 January 2013Varlaam Ponomaryov Archbishop of Makhachkala and Derbent, b. 1974
• 2 December 2013Aleksii Mulyar Bishop of Sayansk and Nizhneudinsk, b. 1976
• 9 July 2015Vsevolod Ponich Bishop of Urzhum and Omutninsk, b. 1961
• 26 October 2015Anthony Sevryuk Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, b. 1984

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata