Varsonofii Ovsyannikov

Life

Consecrated bishop

27 April 1969

Sees

1. 27 April 1969 – 1983

   Bishop of Kursk

   Old Orthodox Church

Consecration

Consecrated 27 April 1969 by:

• Jeremiah Matvievich Archbishop of All Russia, 1883–1969
• Paul Mashinin Archbishop of Poti, Azov and the Black Sea, 1905–1980

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 5 generations back to Stephen Rastorguyev; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Varsonofii Ovsyannikov Bishop of Kursk consecrated 27 April 1969
2. Jeremiah Matvievich Archbishop of All Russia, 1883–1969 consecrated 15 March 1957
3. Epifanii Abramov Archbishop of Kuibyshev, Moscow and All Rus', d. 1965 consecrated 1950
4. John Kalinin Archbishop of Moscow and All Rus', Primate of the Old Orthodox Church, 1868–1956 consecrated 21 September 1939
5. Michael Kochetov Bishop/Primate of the Old Orthodox Church, 1860–1944 consecrated 6 July 1936
6. Stephen Rastorguyev Archbishop of Moscow and All Rus', 1861–1937 consecrated after 1917

Bishops he consecrated 1

• 23 September 1979Gennadii Antonov Archbishop of Novozybkov, Moscow and All Rus', 1903–1996