Saint Serapheim Sobolev

Life

Born

1 December 1881

Monastic tonsure

26 January 1908

Ordained deacon

16 February 1908

Ordained priest

31 March 1908

Made archimandrite

22 December 1912

Consecrated bishop

14 October 1920

Made archbishop

1934

Died

26 February 1950

Canonized

date unknown

Sees

1. 14 October 1920 – April 1921

   Bishop of Lyubansk

   Vicar of Poltava · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. April 1921 – 1934

   Bishop of Boguchar

   Vicar of Voronezh · ROCOR

3. 1934 – 6 June 1945

   Archbishop of Boguchar

   ROCOR

4. 6 June 1945 – 26 February 1950

   Archbishop of Boguchar

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 14 October 1920 by:

• Anthony Khrapovitsky Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1863–1936

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 8 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Serapheim Sobolev Archbishop of Boguchar consecrated 14 October 1920
2. Anthony Khrapovitsky Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1863–1936 consecrated 7 September 1897
3. Arsenii Bryantsev Archbishop of Kharkiv and Okhtyrka, 1839–1914 consecrated 17 May 1882
4. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
5. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
6. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
7. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
8. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
9. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Sources

Also in: Wikidata