Sofronii Zhirov

Life

Consecrated bishop

3 January 1849

Defrocked

29 July 1863

Died

1879

Sees

1. 3 January 1849 – 29 July 1863

   Bishop of Simbirsk

   Russian Orthodox Old Believer Church (Belaya Krinitsa Hierarchy)

2. 29 July 1863 – 1879

   Monk

   Russian Orthodox Old Believer Church (Belaya Krinitsa Hierarchy)

Consecration

Consecrated 3 January 1849 by:

• Cyril Timofeyev Archbishop of Belaya Krinitsa and Metropolitan of All Old Orthodox Christians, 1786–1873

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 Gregory VI Phourtouniades; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Sofronii Zhirov Bishop of Simbirsk consecrated 3 January 1849
2. Cyril Timofeyev Archbishop of Belaya Krinitsa and Metropolitan of All Old Orthodox Christians, 1786–1873 consecrated 6 January 1847
3. Ambrose Pappa-Georgopoli Metropolitan of Belaya Krinitsa, 1791–1863 consecrated 1835
4. Gregory VI Phourtouniades Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1798–1881 consecrated 24 October 1825

Bishops he consecrated 2

• after 1853Vitalii Myatlev Bishop of the Urals, d. 1900
• 16 January 1854Joseph Brednev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', cons. 1854