Isaac Aniskin

Life

Born

24 April 1945

Ordained deacon

1981

Ordained priest

1981

Consecrated bishop

1985

Monastic tonsure

September 1986

Made metropolitan

1989

Sees

1. 1985 – 1989

   Bishop

   Russian Catacomb Church (Serapheim-Gennadii)

2. 1989 – present

   Metropolitan of Moscow

   True Orthodox Catacomb Church (Isaakievskii)

Consecration

Consecrated 1985 by:

• Feodosii Gumennikov Schema-Metropolitan, Primate of the Catacomb Church (Serafimo-Gennadiev), cons. 1971
• Vladimir Abramov Bishop, 1955–1987

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. Isaac Aniskin Metropolitan of Moscow consecrated 1985
2. Vladimir Abramov Bishop, 1955–1987 consecrated 1985
3. Genadii Sekach Bishop, 1898–1987 consecrated 1971
4. Serapheim Pozdeyev Bishop of Smolensk, 1885–1971 consecrated 1925
5. Tikhon Belavin Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1865–1925 consecrated 19 October 1897
6. Palladii Rayev-Pisarev Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1827–1898 consecrated 18 December 1866
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

• 1990Afanasii Savitskii Bishop of Vologda and Velikii Ustyug, b. 1956