Aleksii Dekhteryov

Life

Born

2 May 1889

Monastic tonsure

April 1935

Ordained priest

December 1938

Made archimandrite

1 November 1946

Consecrated bishop

12 February 1950

Made archbishop

25 July 1957

Died

19 April 1959

Sees

1. 12 February 1950 – 1956

   Bishop of Prešov

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1955

   Locum tenens of Vilnius

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 1956 – 25 July 1957

   Bishop of Vilnius and Lithuania

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 25 July 1957 – 19 April 1959

   Archbishop of Vilnius and Lithuania

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 12 February 1950 by:

• Nicholas Yarushevich Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna, 1892–1961
• Elevferii Vorontsov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Ladoga, 1892–1959
• Macarius Oksijuk Metropolitan of Warsaw and All Poland, 1884–1961
• Čestmir Kráčmar Bishop of Olomouc and Brno, 1894–1953

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. Aleksii Dekhteryov Archbishop of Vilnius and Lithuania consecrated 12 February 1950
2. Nicholas Yarushevich Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna, 1892–1961 consecrated 7 April 1922
3. Benjamin Kazanskii Metropolitan of Petrograd and Gdov, 1873–1922 consecrated 24 January 1910
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 2

• 15 February 1953Metod Millý Bishop of Michalovce, 1883–1966
• 30 October 1955Sergii Golubtsov Archbishop of Kazan and Mari El, 1906–1982

Sources

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