Serapion Fadeyev

Life

Born

27 May 1933

Monastic tonsure

27 June 1957

Ordained deacon

18 July 1957

Ordained priest

7 April 1965

Made archimandrite

25 February 1971

Consecrated bishop

5 March 1972

Made archbishop

7 September 1979

Made metropolitan

13 May 1987

Died

19 November 1999

Sees

1. 5 March 1972 – 1975

   Bishop of Podolsk

   Vicar of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1975 – 7 September 1979

   Bishop of Irkutsk and Chita

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 7 September 1979 – 1980

   Archbishop of Irkutsk and Chita

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 1980 – 1987

   Archbishop of Vladimir and Suzdal

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 1987 – 13 May 1987

   Archbishop of Chișinău and Moldova

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 13 May 1987 – 1989

   Metropolitan of Chișinău and Moldova

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 1989 – 19 November 1999

   Metropolitan of Tula and Belyov

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 5 March 1972 by:

• Pimen Izvekov Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1910–1990
• Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978
• Serapheim Nikitin Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna, 1905–1979
• Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003
• Filaret Denysenko Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus'-Ukraine, b. 1929
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Gedeon Dokukin Metropolitan of Stavropol and Vladikavkaz, 1929–2003

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. Serapion Fadeyev Metropolitan of Tula and Belyov consecrated 5 March 1972
2. Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978 consecrated 10 July 1960
3. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
4. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
5. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
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 9

• 3 September 1972Anatolii Kuznetsov Archbishop of Kerch, 1930–2024
• 3 June 1973Victorin Belyayev Archbishop of Vilnius and Lithuania, 1903–1990
• 3 January 1975Job Tyvonyuk Metropolitan of Chelyabinsk and Zlatoust, 1938–2020
• 1 April 1984Evsevii Savvin Metropolitan of Pskov and Porkhov, b. 1939
• 1 December 1988Aleksii Kutepov Metropolitan of Tula and Yefremov, b. 1953
• 4 December 1988Victor Oleinik Metropolitan of Tver and Kashin, b. 1940
• 21 July 1989Vladimir Cantarean Metropolitan of Chișinău and Moldova, b. 1952
• 23 July 1989Alexander Kudrjašovs Metropolitan of Riga and All Latvia, b. 1939
• 28 March 1993Herman Moralin Metropolitan of Kursk and Rylsk, b. 1956

Sources

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