Mefodii Menzak

Life

Born

28 October 1914

Monastic tonsure

1942

Ordained deacon

24 December 1942

Ordained priest

22 April 1945

Made archimandrite

9 December 1959

Consecrated bishop

29 August 1962

Made archbishop

2 February 1972

Died

23 October 1974

Sees

1. 29 August 1962 – 22 December 1964

   Bishop of Volyn and Rivne

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 22 December 1964 – 7 October 1967

   Bishop of Chernivtsi (Cernăuţi) and Bukovina

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 7 October 1967 – 2 February 1972

   Bishop of Vologda and Velikii Ustyug

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 2 February 1972 – 23 October 1974

   Archbishop of Omsk and Tyumen

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 29 August 1962 by:

• Pimen Izvekov Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1910–1990
• Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978
• John Vendland Metropolitan of Yaroslavl, 1909–1989
• Leonid Polyakov Metropolitan of Riga and Latvia, 1913–1990
• Nikon Fomichyov Archbishop of Perm and Solikamsk, 1910–1995
• Cyprian Zyornov Archbishop of Berlin and Central Europe, 1911–1987
• Nikodim Rusnak Metropolitan of Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv, 1921–2011

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 10 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Mefodii Menzak Archbishop of Omsk and Tyumen consecrated 29 August 1962
2. John Vendland Metropolitan of Yaroslavl, 1909–1989 consecrated 28 December 1958
3. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
4. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
5. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
6. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
7. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
8. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
9. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
10. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
11. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Sources

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