Alexander Chekanovskii

Life

Born

1891

Ordained priest

1913

Monastic tonsure

1921

Made archimandrite

1921

Consecrated bishop

1921

Made archbishop

1929

Made metropolitan

1935

Retired

14 December 1937

Died

1939

Sees

1. 1921 – 1922

   Bishop of Berdychiv

   Vicar of Kyiv · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1922 – 1924

   Bishop of No See

   Renovationist Schism (Russia)

3. 1924 – 1929

   Bishop of Berdychiv and Uman

   Vicar of Kyiv · Renovationist Schism (Russia)

4. 1929 – 1935

   Archbishop of Berdychiv and Uman

   Vicar of Kyiv · Renovationist Schism (Russia)

5. 1935 – 14 December 1937

   Metropolitan of Kyiv

   Renovationist Schism (Russia)

6. 14 December 1937 – 1939

   Former Metropolitan of Kyiv

   Renovationist Schism (Russia)

Consecration

Consecrated 1921 by:

• Michael Ermakov Metropolitan of Kyiv, 1862–1929

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. Alexander Chekanovskii Former Metropolitan of Kyiv consecrated 1921
2. Michael Ermakov Metropolitan of Kyiv, 1862–1929 consecrated 31 January 1899
3. Vladimir Bogoyavlenskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1848–1918 consecrated 13 June 1888
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

• 1925Gabriel Barskii Bishop of Moldova, cons. 1925