Roman Tang

Life

Born

3 October 1893

Ordained deacon

7 March 1931

Ordained priest

8 March 1931

Consecrated bishop

16 April 1950

Made archbishop

21 May 1959

Died

18 July 1963

Sees

1. 16 April 1950 – 20 December 1955

   Bishop of Tallinn

   Vicar of Leningrad · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 20 December 1955 – 23 July 1956

   Bishop of Luga

   Vicar of Leningrad · Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 23 July 1956 – 9 December 1958

   Bishop of Ivanovo and Kineshma

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 9 December 1958 – 21 May 1959

   Bishop of Kursk and Belgorod

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 21 May 1959 – 18 July 1963

   Archbishop of Vilnius and Lithuania

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 16 April 1950 by:

• Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970
• Gregory Chukov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1870–1955
• Symeon Bychkov Bishop of Luga, 1882–1952

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. Roman Tang Archbishop of Vilnius and Lithuania consecrated 16 April 1950
2. Gregory Chukov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1870–1955 consecrated 14 October 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 3

• 13 December 1953Michael Chub Archbishop of Tambov and Michurinsk, 1912–1985
• 25 December 1955John Alekseyev Former Archbishop of Gorky and Arzamas, 1892–1966
• 11 June 1959Leonid Polyakov Metropolitan of Riga and Latvia, 1913–1990

Sources

Also in: Wikidata