Christopher Smirnov

Life

Born

8 February 1842

Monastic tonsure

27 March 1883

Ordained deacon

13 April 1883

Ordained priest

14 April 1883

Made archimandrite

17 July 1883

Consecrated bishop

25 May 1887

Retired

17 October 1908

Sees

1. 25 May 1887 – 1892

   Bishop of Volokolamsk

   Vicar of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1892 – 1897

   Bishop of Kovno (Kaunas)

   Vicar of Lithuania · Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 1897 – 1900

   Bishop of Ekaterinburg and Irbit

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 1900 – 1903

   Bishop of Kamyanets-Podilskyi

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 1903 – 17 October 1908

   Bishop of Ufa and Menzelinsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 17 October 1908 – 1921

   Former Bishop of Ufa and Menzelinsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 25 May 1887 by:

• Ioannikii Rudnev Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1826–1900

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. Christopher Smirnov Bishop of Menzelinsk consecrated 25 May 1887
2. Ioannikii Rudnev Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1826–1900 consecrated 12 June 1861
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

• 2 February 1892Tikhon Nikanorov Archbishop of Voronezh and Zadonsk, 1855–1920
• 26 May 1903Tikhon Vasilievskii Metropolitan of Voronezh, 1867–1926

Sources

• wikidata.org

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