Serapheim Tikhonov

Life

Born

23 February 1935

Monastic tonsure

20 April 1965

Ordained deacon

21 May 1965

Ordained priest

5 September 1965

Consecrated bishop

18 October 1978

Made archbishop

5 April 1990

Died

3 July 2000

Sees

1. 18 October 1978 – 5 April 1990

   Bishop of Penza and Saransk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 5 April 1990 – 3 July 2000

   Archbishop of Penza and Kuznetsy

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 18 October 1978 by:

• Pimen Izvekov Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1910–1990
• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Sergii Petrov Metropolitan of Odessa and Kherson, 1924–1990
• Filaret Vakhromeyev Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk, 1935–2021
• Melkhisedek Lebedev Archbishop of Bryansk and Sevsk, 1927–2016
• Gleb Smirnov Archbishop of Oryol and Bryansk, 1913–1987
• Chrysostom Martishkin Metropolitan of Vilnius and All Lithuania, 1934–2025
• Job Tyvonyuk Metropolitan of Chelyabinsk and Zlatoust, 1938–2020
• Nicholas Sayama Archbishop of Ramenskoye, 1914–2008

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. Serapheim Tikhonov Archbishop of Penza and Kuznetsy consecrated 18 October 1978
2. Sergii Petrov Metropolitan of Odessa and Kherson, 1924–1990 consecrated 13 March 1960
3. Boris Vik Metropolitan of Kherson and Odessa, 1906–1965 consecrated 2 April 1944
4. Sergii Stragorodskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1867–1944 consecrated 25 February 1901
5. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
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

Bishops he consecrated 4

• 27 April 1980Mefodii Nemtsov Metropolitan of Perm and Kungur, b. 1949
• 1 December 1988Aleksii Kutepov Metropolitan of Tula and Yefremov, b. 1953
• 4 December 1988Victor Oleinik Metropolitan of Tver and Kashin, b. 1940
• 12 September 1995Savva Volkov Archbishop of Tiraspol and Dubăsari, b. 1958

Sources

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