Serapheim Lukoyanov

Life

Born

4 September 1879

Monastic tonsure

7 December 1902

Ordained deacon

8 December 1902

Ordained priest

1903

Made archimandrite

1907

Consecrated bishop

7 September 1914

Made archbishop

1920

Made metropolitan

7 December 1938

Retired

15 November 1949

Died

18 February 1959

Sees

1. 7 September 1914 – 1918

   Bishop of Serdobol (Sortavala)

   Vicar of Vyborg and Finland · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1917 – 1918

   Locum tenens of Vyborg and Finland

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 1918 – 1920

   Bishop of Vyborg and Finland

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 1920 – 1923

   Archbishop of Vyborg and Finland

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 1923 – 1927

   Former Archbishop of Vyborg and Finland

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 1927 – 7 December 1938

   Archbishop of Western Europe

   ROCOR

7. 7 December 1938 – 1945

   Metropolitan of Western Europe

   ROCOR

8. 1945 – 15 November 1949

   Metropolitan of Western Europe

   Patriarchate of Moscow

9. 15 November 1949 – 18 February 1959

   Former Metropolitan of Western Europe

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 7 September 1914 by:

• Vladimir Bogoyavlenskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1848–1918

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 7 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Serapheim Lukoyanov Former Metropolitan of Western Europe consecrated 7 September 1914
2. Vladimir Bogoyavlenskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1848–1918 consecrated 13 June 1888
3. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
4. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
5. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
6. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
7. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
8. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 3

• 5 December 1920Alexander Paulus Metropolitan of Tallinn and All Estonia, 1872–1953
• 30 June 1929Nicholas Karpov Bishop of London, 1891–1932
• 1946Nikon de Greve Archbishop of Brooklyn, 1895–1983

Sources

Also in: Wikidata