Aleksii Konoplyov

Life

Born

10 February 1910

Ordained deacon

13 June 1948

Ordained priest

1 July 1951

Monastic tonsure

6 June 1956

Made archimandrite

14 June 1956

Consecrated bishop

21 July 1956

Made archbishop

25 February 1964

Made metropolitan

7 September 1981

Died

7 October 1988

Sees

1. 21 July 1956 – 1957

   Bishop of Perm and Solikamsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1957 – 1961

   Bishop of Luga

   Vicar of Leningrad · Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 1961 – 25 February 1964

   Bishop of Tula and Belyov

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 25 February 1964 – 1966

   Archbishop of Tula and Belyov

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 1966

   Archbishop of Riga and Latvia

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 1966 – 1978

   Archbishop of Krasnodar and Kuban

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 1966 – 1967

   Locum tenens of Rostov-on-Don

   Patriarchate of Moscow

8. 1978 – 7 September 1981

   Archbishop of Kalinin and Kashin

   Patriarchate of Moscow

9. 7 September 1981 – 7 October 1988

   Metropolitan of Kalinin and Kashin

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 21 July 1956 by:

• Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970
• Nicholas Yarushevich Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna, 1892–1961
• Boris Vik Metropolitan of Kherson and Odessa, 1906–1965
• Palladii Kaminskii Archbishop of Zhytomyr and Ovruch, 1896–1978
• Donat Shcheglov Archbishop of Kaluga and Borovsk, 1899–1979

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 9 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Aleksii Konoplyov Metropolitan of Kalinin and Kashin consecrated 21 July 1956
2. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
3. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
4. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
5. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
6. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
7. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
8. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
9. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
10. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 9

• 19 July 1957Polycarp Priimak Bishop of Penza and Saransk, 1912–1989
• 28 December 1958John Vendland Metropolitan of Yaroslavl, 1909–1989
• 17 June 1965Melkhisedek Lebedev Archbishop of Bryansk and Sevsk, 1927–2016
• 26 July 1970Meliton Solovyov Archbishop of Tikhvin, 1897–1986
• 14 October 1972Simon Novikov Metropolitan of Ryazan and Kasimov, 1928–2006
• 18 October 1972Damaskin Bodryi Bishop of Mukachevo and Uzhhorod, 1937–1989
• 16 December 1973Platon Udovenko Metropolitan of Feodosiya and Kerch, b. 1940
• 14 October 1982Alexander Timofeyev Archbishop of Saratov and Volsk, 1941–2003
• 28 June 1988Vincent Chekalin Bishop of Yasno Pole, Primate of the Russian Orthodox Catholic Church, b. 1952

Sources

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