Nicholas Kutepov

Life

Born

4 October 1924

Ordained deacon

12 July 1953

Ordained priest

November 1959

Monastic tonsure

20 December 1959

Made archimandrite

28 August 1961

Consecrated bishop

10 September 1961

Made archbishop

9 September 1972

Made metropolitan

25 February 1991

Died

20 June 2001

Sees

1. 10 September 1961 – 9 October 1963

   Bishop of Mukachevo and Uzhhorod

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 9 October 1963 – 1969

   Bishop of Omsk and Tyumen

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 1969 – 1 December 1970

   Bishop of Rostov and Novocherkassk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 1 December 1970 – 9 September 1972

   Bishop of Vladimir and Suzdal

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 9 September 1972 – 17 April 1975

   Archbishop of Vladimir and Suzdal

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 17 April 1975 – 11 July 1977

   Archbishop of Kaluga and Borovsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 11 July 1977 – 25 February 1991

   Archbishop of Gorky and Arzamas

   Patriarchate of Moscow

8. 25 February 1991 – 20 June 2001

   Metropolitan of Gorky and Arzamas

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 10 September 1961 by:

• Pitirim Sviridov Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna, 1887–1963
• Boris Vik Metropolitan of Kherson and Odessa, 1906–1965
• Panteleimon Rudyk Archbishop of Edmonton and Canada, 1898–1968
• Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978
• Cyprian Zyornov Archbishop of Berlin and Central Europe, 1911–1987
• Nikodim Rusnak Metropolitan of Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv, 1921–2011
• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008

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. Nicholas Kutepov Metropolitan of Gorky and Arzamas consecrated 10 September 1961
2. Panteleimon Rudyk Archbishop of Edmonton and Canada, 1898–1968 consecrated 27 March 1941
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

• 31 May 1987Eugene Zhdan Archbishop of Tambov and Michurinsk, 1942–2002
• 5 October 1989Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• 29 July 1991Ierofei Sobolev Bishop of Balakhna, 1936–2001

Sources

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