Saint Afanasii Volkhovskii

Life

Ordained priest

1765

Monastic tonsure

1 October 1769

Made archimandrite

23 November 1783

Consecrated bishop

30 July 1788

Retired

27 August 1797

Died

1 January 1801

Canonized

30 November 2017

Sees

1. 30 July 1788 – 5 March 1795

   Bishop of Staraya Russa

   Vicar of Novgorod · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 5 March 1795 – 27 August 1797

   Bishop of Mahilioŭ and Polatsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 27 August 1797 – 1 January 1801

   Former Bishop of Mahilioŭ and Polatsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 30 July 1788 by:

• Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 3 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Afanasii Volkhovskii Former Bishop of Mahilioŭ and Polatsk consecrated 30 July 1788
2. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
3. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
4. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Sources

• wikidata.org

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