Joasaph Ovsyannikov

Life

Born

1 January 1904

Monastic tonsure

5 January 1937

Ordained deacon

14 January 1943

Ordained priest

15 January 1943

Made archimandrite

3 May 1964

Consecrated bishop

30 October 1966

Made archbishop

2 September 1977

Died

2 April 1984

Sees

1. 30 October 1966 – 31 May 1973

   Bishop of Perm and Solikamsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 31 May 1973 – 2 September 1977

   Bishop of Rostov and Novocherkassk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 2 September 1977 – 2 April 1984

   Archbishop of Rostov and Novocherkassk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 30 October 1966 by:

• Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970
• Pimen Izvekov Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1910–1990
• Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978
• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• Gabriel Ogorodnikov Archbishop of Tashkent and Central Asia, 1890–1971
• Nikodim Rusnak Metropolitan of Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv, 1921–2011
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 9 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Joasaph Ovsyannikov Archbishop of Rostov and Novocherkassk consecrated 30 October 1966
2. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
3. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
4. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
5. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
6. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
7. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
8. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
9. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
10. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 1

• 22 October 1967Gedeon Dokukin Metropolitan of Stavropol and Vladikavkaz, 1929–2003