Dionisii Alfyorov

Life

Born

4 July 1961

Monastic tonsure

October 1995

Ordained deacon

October 1995

Ordained priest

1 November 1995

Consecrated bishop

5 August 2002

Defrocked

25 December 2009 · Russian True Orthodox Church

Sees

1. 5 August 2002 – 2003

   Bishop of Borovichi

   Russian True Orthodox Church

2. 2003 – 2009

   Bishop of Novgorod and Tver

   Russian True Orthodox Church

3. 2009 – 2014

   Bishop of Novgorod and Tver

   ROCOR (Agafangel)

4. 2014 – present

   Suspended

   ROCOR (Agafangel)

Consecration

Consecrated 5 August 2002 by:

• Lazar Zhurbenko Archbishop of Tambov and Morshansk, d. 2005
• Benjamin Rusalenko Archbishop of Chornomorsk and Kuban, b. 1955

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 12 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Dionisii Alfyorov Former Bishop of Novgorod and Tver consecrated 5 August 2002
2. Lazar Zhurbenko Archbishop of Tambov and Morshansk, d. 2005 consecrated 10 May 1982
3. Barnabas Prokofiev Bishop of Cannes, 1945–2017 consecrated 29 April 1982
4. Anthony Bartoshevich Archbishop of Geneva and Western Europe, 1910–1993 consecrated 5 May 1957
5. John Maximovich Archbishop of San Francisco and Western America, 1896–1966 consecrated 1934
6. Anthony Khrapovitsky Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1863–1936 consecrated 7 September 1897
7. Arsenii Bryantsev Archbishop of Kharkiv and Okhtyrka, 1839–1914 consecrated 17 May 1882
8. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
9. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
10. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
11. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
12. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
13. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 2

• 1998Nicholas Modebadze Bishop of Poti, b. 1960
• 18 August 2002Tikhon Pasechnik Archbishop of Omsk and Siberia, b. 1948