Basil Smelov

Life

Born

1869

Ordained priest

1892

Consecrated bishop

6 January 1923

Made archbishop

20 May 1923

Made metropolitan

August 1925

Retired

1933

Died

23 February 1936

Sees

1. 6 January 1923 – 20 May 1923

   Bishop of Biisk

   Renovationist Schism (Russia)

2. 20 May 1923 – 1925

   Archbishop of Vladivostok

   Renovationist Schism (Russia)

3. 1925 – 1933

   Metropolitan of Vladivostok

   Renovationist Schism (Russia)

4. 1933 – 23 February 1936

   Former Metropolitan of Vladivostok

   Renovationist Schism (Russia)

Consecration

Consecrated 6 January 1923 by:

• Peter Blinov Metropolitan of Minsk, 1893–1938

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 11 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Basil Smelov Metropolitan of Vladivostok consecrated 6 January 1923
2. Peter Blinov Metropolitan of Minsk, 1893–1938 consecrated 8 October 1922
3. Nicholas Chizhov Archbishop of Ufa, b. 1859 consecrated 24 September 1922
4. Gabriel Voevodin Archbishop of Polatsk and Vitebsk, 1869–1937 consecrated 25 July 1910
5. Anthony Khrapovitsky Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1863–1936 consecrated 7 September 1897
6. Arsenii Bryantsev Archbishop of Kharkiv and Okhtyrka, 1839–1914 consecrated 17 May 1882
7. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
8. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
9. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
10. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
11. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
12. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 1

• 28 September 1924Gregory Klimchuk Archbishop of Semipalatinsk, 1878–1938