Elevferii Bogoyavlenskii

Life

Born

14 October 1870

Ordained priest

1890

Monastic tonsure

1904

Made archimandrite

1909

Consecrated bishop

21 August 1911

Made archbishop

28 June 1921

Made metropolitan

November 1928

Died

31 December 1940

Sees

1. 21 August 1911 – 1917

   Bishop of Kovno (Kaunas)

   Vicar of Lithuania · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1917 – 28 June 1921

   Bishop of Lithuania

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 28 June 1921 – 28 November 1928

   Archbishop of Vilnius and Lithuania

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 28 November 1928 – 31 December 1940

   Metropolitan of Vilnius and Lithuania

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 21 August 1911 by:

• Sergii Stragorodskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1867–1944

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 8 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Elevferii Bogoyavlenskii Metropolitan of Vilnius and Lithuania consecrated 21 August 1911
2. Sergii Stragorodskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1867–1944 consecrated 25 February 1901
3. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
4. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
5. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
6. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
7. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
8. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
9. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 1

• 4 June 1922Alexander Inozemtsev Metropolitan of Pinsk and Poliske, 1887–1948