Varsonofii Grinevich

Life

Born

16 May 1875

Ordained deacon

October 1920

Ordained priest

October 1920

Monastic tonsure

14 December 1945

Made archimandrite

17 December 1945

Consecrated bishop

30 December 1945

Made archbishop

February 1956

Died

13 March 1958

Sees

1. 30 December 1945 – 18 November 1948

   Bishop of Hrodna and Baranovichsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 18 November 1948 – 31 October 1950

   Bishop of Semipalatinsk and Pavlodar

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 31 October 1950 – 16 November 1953

   Bishop of Chkalov and Buzuluk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 16 November 1953 – 29 July 1954

   Former Bishop of Chkalov and Buzuluk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 29 July 1954 – February 1956

   Bishop of Kalinin and Kashin

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 1954 – 1956

   Locum tenens of Velikie Luki

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 8 February 1956 – 13 March 1958

   Archbishop of Kalinin and Kashin

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 30 December 1945 by:

• Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970
• John Sokolov Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1877–1968
• Gregory Chukov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1870–1955
• Cornelius Popov Metropolitan of Gorky and Arzamas, 1874–1966
• Luke Voino-Yasenetskii Archbishop of Simferopol and the Crimea, 1877–1961
• Bartholomew Gorodtsev Metropolitan of Novosibirsk and Barnaul, 1866–1956

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. Varsonofii Grinevich Archbishop of Kalinin and Kashin consecrated 30 December 1945
2. Bartholomew Gorodtsev Metropolitan of Novosibirsk and Barnaul, 1866–1956 consecrated 31 May 1942
3. Sergii Stragorodskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1867–1944 consecrated 25 February 1901
4. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
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 1

• 27 February 1949Nikandr Volyannikov Bishop of Omsk and Tyumen, 1909–1957

Sources

Also in: Wikidata