Leontii Bondar

Life

Born

7 May 1913

Monastic tonsure

25 December 1943

Ordained deacon

26 December 1943

Ordained priest

2 January 1944

Made archimandrite

July 1953

Consecrated bishop

10 August 1956

Made archbishop

9 September 1971

Made metropolitan

25 February 1992

Died

24 January 1999

Sees

1. 10 August 1956 – 5 May 1961

   Bishop of Babruysk

   Vicar of Minsk · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1960

   Locum tenens of Minsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 5 May 1961 – 14 May 1963

   Bishop of Novosibirsk and Barnaul

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 14 May 1963 – 9 September 1971

   Bishop of Orenburg and Buzuluk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 9 September 1971 – 25 February 1992

   Archbishop of Orenburg and Buzuluk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 25 February 1992 – 24 January 1999

   Metropolitan of Orenburg and Buzuluk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 10 August 1956 by:

• Pitirim Sviridov Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna, 1887–1963
• Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970
• Mitrofan Gutovskii Bishop of Kuibyshev and Syzran, 1897–1959
• Mstislav Volonsevich Archbishop of Kirov and Sloboda, 1906–1978

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. Leontii Bondar Metropolitan of Orenburg and Buzuluk consecrated 10 August 1956
2. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
3. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
4. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
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 6

• 11 April 1987Constantine Khomich Archbishop of Brest and Kobryn, 1911–2000
• 1 December 1988Aleksii Kutepov Metropolitan of Tula and Yefremov, b. 1953
• 4 December 1988Victor Oleinik Metropolitan of Tver and Kashin, b. 1940
• 21 July 1989Vladimir Cantarean Metropolitan of Chișinău and Moldova, b. 1952
• 29 July 1991Ierofei Sobolev Bishop of Balakhna, 1936–2001
• 3 October 1993Simon Getya Metropolitan of Oryol and Bolkhov, b. 1949

Sources

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