Nikandr Kovalenko

Life

Born

22 September 1954

Monastic tonsure

25 February 1985

Ordained deacon

17 March 1985

Ordained priest

7 April 1986

Made archimandrite

5 August 1988

Consecrated bishop

7 August 1988

Retired

17 February 1997

Died

22 June 2023

Sees

1. 7 August 1988 – 17 February 1997

   Bishop of Zvenigorod

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 17 February 1997 – 22 June 2023

   Former Bishop of Zvenigorod

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 7 August 1988 by:

• Filaret Vakhromeyev Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk, 1935–2021
• Vladimir Kotlyarov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1929–2022
• Valentine Mishchuk Metropolitan of Orenburg and Buzuluk, b. 1940
• Vladimir Ikim Metropolitan of Tashkent and Central Asia, b. 1940
• Constantine Khomich Archbishop of Brest and Kobryn, 1911–2000

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. Nikandr Kovalenko Bishop of Zvenigorod consecrated 7 August 1988
2. Vladimir Kotlyarov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1929–2022 consecrated 30 December 1962
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

Sources

Also in: Wikidata