Ambrose Smirnov

Life

Born

4 April 1874

Monastic tonsure

7 April 1900

Ordained priest

30 April 1900

Made archimandrite

1904

Consecrated bishop

31 July 1911

Made archbishop

28 November 1928

Died

25 May 1938

Sees

1. 31 July 1911 – 1917

   Bishop of Mikhailovka

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1917 – 1921

   Bishop of Yelets

   Vicar of Oryol · Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 1921 – 1923

   Bishop of Bryansk and Sevsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 1923

   Bishop of Ryazan

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 1923 – 1925

   Former Bishop of Ryazan

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 1925 – 1928

   Bishop of Sergiev

   Vicar of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 1928 – 28 November 1928

   Bishop of Dmitrov

   Vicar of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

8. 28 November 1928 – 1931

   Archbishop of Vologda

   Patriarchate of Moscow

9. 1931 – 1933

   Former Archbishop of Vologda

   Patriarchate of Moscow

10. 1933 – 14 May 1934

    Archbishop of Pugachyov

    Patriarchate of Moscow

11. 14 May 1934 – 25 November 1935

    Archbishop of Murom

    Vicar of Nizhny Novgorod · Patriarchate of Moscow

12. 25 November 1935 – 25 May 1938

    Former Archbishop of Murom

    Vicar of Nizhny Novgorod · Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 31 July 1911 by:

• Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 7 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Ambrose Smirnov Former Archbishop of Murom consecrated 31 July 1911
2. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
3. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
4. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
5. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
6. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
7. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
8. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 2

• 10 March 1913Neofit Slednikov Bishop of Starobilsk, 1873–1918
• 19 February 1917Laurence Knyazev Bishop of Balakhna, d. 1918

Sources

• wikidata.org

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