Afanasii Savitskii

Life

Born

1956

Ordained priest

1986

Monastic tonsure

1989

Made archimandrite

1990

Consecrated bishop

1990 · True Orthodox Catacomb Church (Isaakievskii)

Consecrated bishop

2005 · True Orthodox Catacomb Church (Seraphimo-Gennadievskii)

Consecrated bishop

7 September 2008 · ROCOR (Agafangel)

Sees

1. 1990 – 1991

   Bishop

   True Orthodox Catacomb Church (Isaakievskii)

2. 1991 – 2005

   Monk

   True Orthodox Catacomb Church (Seraphimo-Gennadievskii)

3. 2005 – 2008

   Bishop of Vologda

   True Orthodox Catacomb Church (Seraphimo-Gennadievskii)

4. 2008 – present

   Bishop of Vologda and Velikii Ustyug

   ROCOR (Agafangel)

5. 2014

   Locum tenens of Moscow

   ROCOR (Agafangel)

Consecration

Consecrated 1990 by:

• Agafangel Pashkovskii Metropolitan of New York and Eastern America, Archbishop of Taurida and Odessa, b. 1956
• Sofronii Musienko Bishop of Saint Petersburg and Northern Russia, b. 1970
• George Kravchenko Archbishop of Chișinău and Moldova, b. 1971
• Isaac Aniskin Metropolitan of Moscow, b. 1945
• Hilarion Svetlov Bishop

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 12 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Afanasii Savitskii Bishop of Vologda and Velikii Ustyug consecrated 1990
2. Isaac Aniskin Metropolitan of Moscow, b. 1945 consecrated 1985
3. Vladimir Abramov Bishop, 1955–1987 consecrated 1985
4. Genadii Sekach Bishop, 1898–1987 consecrated 1971
5. Serapheim Pozdeyev Bishop of Smolensk, 1885–1971 consecrated 1925
6. Tikhon Belavin Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1865–1925 consecrated 19 October 1897
7. Palladii Rayev-Pisarev Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1827–1898 consecrated 18 December 1866
8. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
9. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
10. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
11. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
12. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
13. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735