Nikon Sofiiskii

Life

Born

26 May 1861

Ordained priest

20 February 1883

Monastic tonsure

1887

Made archimandrite

30 March 1891

Consecrated bishop

8 March 1898

Made archbishop

6 May 1906

Died

10 June 1908

Sees

1. 8 March 1898 – 1899

   Bishop of Volsk

   Vicar of Saratov · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1899 – 1901

   Bishop of Narva

   Vicar of Saint Petersburg · Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 1901 – 1904

   Bishop of Vyatka and Sloboda

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 1904 – 6 May 1906

   Bishop of Vladimir and Suzdal

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 6 May 1906 – 10 June 1908

   Archbishop of Kartalini and Kakheti

   Exarch of Georgia · Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 8 March 1898 by:

• Palladii Rayev-Pisarev Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1827–1898
• Ioannikii Rudnev Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1826–1900
• Feognost Lebedev Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1829–1903
• Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912
• Dimitrii Sambikin Archbishop of Kazan and Sviyazhsk, 1839–1908
• John Kratirov Bishop of Saratov and Tsaritsyn, 1839–1909
• Benjamin Muratovskii Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1855–1930

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 7 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Nikon Sofiiskii Archbishop of Kartalini and Kakheti consecrated 8 March 1898
2. Palladii Rayev-Pisarev Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1827–1898 consecrated 18 December 1866
3. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
4. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
5. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
6. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
7. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
8. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 4

• 18 March 1901Sergii Voskresenskii Bishop of Uglich, 1835–1906
• 29 July 1901Constantine Bulychev Archbishop of Mahilioŭ, b. 1858
• 19 May 1902Mikhei Alekseyev Bishop of Ufa and Menzelinsk, 1851–1931
• 6 August 1907Vladimir Putyata Former Archbishop of Penza and Saransk, 1869–1936

Sources

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