Benjamin Novitskii

Life

Born

30 September 1900

Monastic tonsure

15 September 1928

Ordained deacon

16 September 1928

Ordained priest

25 December 1928

Made archimandrite

17 May 1934

Consecrated bishop

15 June 1941

Made archbishop

12 February 1958

Died

15 October 1976

Sees

1. 15 June 1941 – August 1942

   Bishop of Pinsk and Poliske

   Vicar of Volyn · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. August 1942 – 1945

   Bishop of Poltava and Lubny

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 1945 – 22 November 1956

   Former Bishop of Poltava and Lubny

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 22 November 1956 – 12 February 1958

   Bishop of Omsk and Tyumen

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 12 February 1958 – 21 May 1973

   Archbishop of Irkutsk and Chita

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 21 May 1973 – 15 October 1976

   Archbishop of Cheboksary and Chuvash

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 15 June 1941 by:

• Nicholas Yarushevich Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna, 1892–1961
• Anthony Martsenko Former Archbishop of Tula and Belyov, 1887–1954
• Polycarp Sikorskii Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, 1875–1953

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. Benjamin Novitskii Archbishop of Cheboksary and Chuvash consecrated 15 June 1941
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 5

• 7 November 1941Leontii Filippovich Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina and Paraguay, 1904–1971
• 9 December 1941John Lavrinenko Archbishop of Kostroma and Halych, 1899–1985
• 9 June 1942Pankratii Gladkov Bishop of Belgorod and Graivoron, d. 1945
• 24 July 1942Job Kresovich Archbishop of Ivanovo and Kineshma, 1898–1977
• 4 June 1967Feodosii Dikun Metropolitan of Poltava and Kremenchuk, 1926–2001

Sources

Also in: Wikidata