Eugene Zhdan

Life

Born

30 August 1942

Ordained deacon

24 April 1976

Ordained priest

12 September 1977

Monastic tonsure

March 1985

Made archimandrite

March 1985

Consecrated bishop

31 May 1987

Made archbishop

25 February 1991

Died

11 October 2002

Sees

1. 31 May 1987 – 25 February 1991

   Bishop of Tambov and Michurinsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 25 February 1991 – 11 October 2002

   Archbishop of Tambov and Michurinsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 12 March 2002 – 11 October 2002

   Archbishop of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 21 June 2001 – 12 March 2002

   Locum tenens of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 31 May 1987 by:

• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• Nicholas Kutepov Metropolitan of Gorky and Arzamas, 1924–2001
• Gedeon Dokukin Metropolitan of Stavropol and Vladikavkaz, 1929–2003
• Anthony Zavgorodnii Archbishop of Stavropol and Baku, b. 1938
• Isidore Kirichenko Metropolitan of Ekaterinodar and Kuban, 1941–2020
• Khrisanf Chepil Metropolitan of Kirov and Sloboda, 1937–2011
• Simon Ishunin Archbishop of Brussels and Belgium, b. 1951

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 10 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Eugene Zhdan Archbishop of Tambov and Michurinsk consecrated 31 May 1987
2. Nicholas Kutepov Metropolitan of Gorky and Arzamas, 1924–2001 consecrated 10 September 1961
3. Panteleimon Rudyk Archbishop of Edmonton and Canada, 1898–1968 consecrated 27 March 1941
4. Sergii Stragorodskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1867–1944 consecrated 25 February 1901
5. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
6. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
7. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
8. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
9. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
10. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
11. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 7

• 5 October 1989Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• 15 September 1990Cornelius Jakobs Metropolitan of Tallinn and All Estonia, 1924–2018
• 16 June 1991Constantine Goryanov Metropolitan of Petrozavodsk and Karelia, b. 1951
• 29 July 1991Ierofei Sobolev Bishop of Balakhna, 1936–2001
• 20 April 2002Feofilakt Moiseyev Former Bishop of Mytishchi, 1949–2023
• 21 April 2002Feodosii Vasnev Metropolitan of Tambov and Rasskazovo, b. 1961
• 28 January 2008Matthew Maistrenko Bishop of Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhya, b. 1940

Sources

• ru.wikipedia.org

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