Raphael Berezin

Life

Born

1872

Ordained priest

1897

Monastic tonsure

26 October 1944

Consecrated bishop

29 October 1944

Died

15 May 1945

Sees

1. 29 October 1944 – 15 May 1945

   Bishop of Kalinin and Velikii Lutsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 29 October 1944 by:

• Nicholas Yarushevich Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna, 1892–1961
• Makarii Dayev Archbishop of Mozhaisk, 1888–1960

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. Raphael Berezin Bishop of Kalinin and Velikii Lutsk consecrated 29 October 1944
2. Nicholas Yarushevich Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna, 1892–1961 consecrated 7 April 1922
3. Benjamin Kazanskii Metropolitan of Petrograd and Gdov, 1873–1922 consecrated 24 January 1910
4. Vladimir Bogoyavlenskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1848–1918 consecrated 13 June 1888
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

Sources

Also in: Wikidata