Filaret Vakhromeyev

Life

Born

21 March 1935

Monastic tonsure

3 April 1959

Ordained deacon

26 April 1959

Ordained priest

14 December 1961

Made hegumen

4 August 1963

Made archimandrite

8 October 1963

Elected bishop

8 October 1965

Consecrated bishop

24 October 1965

Made archbishop

9 September 1971

Made metropolitan

15 April 1975

Retired

25 December 2013

Died

12 January 2021

Sees

1. 24 October 1965 – 14 May 1966

   Bishop of Tikhvin

   Vicar of Leningrad · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 14 May 1966 – 9 September 1971

   Bishop of Dmitrov

   Vicar of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 6 September 1971 – 25 August 1972

   Locum tenens of Kalinin

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 9 September 1971 – 18 April 1973

   Archbishop of Dmitrov

   Vicar of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 18 April 1973 – 15 April 1975

   Archbishop of Berlin and Central Europe

   Exarch of Central Europe · Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 15 April 1975 – 10 October 1978

   Metropolitan of Berlin and Central Europe

   Exarch of Central Europe · Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 10 October 1978 – 12 October 1978

   Metropolitan of Minsk and Belarus

   Patriarchate of Moscow

8. 12 October 1978 – 1 February 1984

   Metropolitan of Minsk and Belarus

   Exarch of Western Europe · Patriarchate of Moscow

9. 16 November 1979 – date unknown

   Locum tenens of Korsun

   Patriarchate of Moscow

10. 1 February 1984 – 16 October 1989

    Metropolitan of Minsk and Belarus

    Patriarchate of Moscow

11. 16 October 1989 – 18 February 1992

    Metropolitan of Minsk and Hrodna

    Exarch of Belarus · Patriarchate of Moscow

12. 18 February 1992 – 25 December 2013

    Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk

    Exarch of All Belarus · Patriarchate of Moscow

13. 25 December 2013 – 12 January 2021

    Former Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk

    Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 24 October 1965 by:

• Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978
• Leonid Polyakov Metropolitan of Riga and Latvia, 1913–1990
• Sergii Petrov Metropolitan of Odessa and Kherson, 1924–1990
• Anthony Melnikov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1924–1986
• John Ivanov Bishop of Kirov and Sloboda, 1912–1966
• Melkhisedek Lebedev Archbishop of Bryansk and Sevsk, 1927–2016

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. Filaret Vakhromeyev Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk consecrated 24 October 1965
2. Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978 consecrated 10 July 1960
3. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
4. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
5. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
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 42

• 26 December 1965Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• 30 January 1966Irinei Susemihl Metropolitan of Vienna and Austria, 1919–1999
• 23 October 1966Clement Perestyuk Archbishop of Sverdlovsk and Kurgan, 1904–1986
• 6 November 1966Michael Mudyugin Archbishop of Vologda and Velikii Ustyug, 1912–2000
• 25 December 1966Hermogen Orekhov Archbishop of Krasnodar and Kuban, 1929–1980
• 22 October 1967Gedeon Dokukin Metropolitan of Stavropol and Vladikavkaz, 1929–2003
• 12 September 1968Peter L'Huiller Archbishop of New York and New Jersey, 1926–2007
• 6 December 1968Herman Timofeyev Metropolitan of Volgograd, b. 1937
• 26 July 1970Meliton Solovyov Archbishop of Tikhvin, 1897–1986
• 19 December 1971Serapheim Rodionov Archbishop of Zurich, 1905–1997
• 23 April 1972Chrysostom Martishkin Metropolitan of Vilnius and All Lithuania, 1934–2025
• 3 September 1972Anatolii Kuznetsov Archbishop of Kerch, 1930–2024
• 14 October 1972Simon Novikov Metropolitan of Ryazan and Kasimov, 1928–2006
• 18 October 1972Damaskin Bodryi Bishop of Mukachevo and Uzhhorod, 1937–1989
• 18 October 1978Serapheim Tikhonov Archbishop of Penza and Kuznetsy, 1935–2000
• 31 August 1980Afanasii Former Archbishop of Perm and Solikamsk, 1927–2002
• 11 October 1981Longin Talypin Archbishop of Klin, 1946–2014
• 8 August 1982Clement Kapalin Metropolitan of Kaluga and Borovsk, b. 1949
• 14 October 1982Alexander Timofeyev Archbishop of Saratov and Volsk, 1941–2003
• 30 January 1983Sergii Fomin Metropolitan of Voronezh and Liski, b. 1949
• 1 April 1984Evsevii Savvin Metropolitan of Pskov and Porkhov, b. 1939
• 11 January 1987Feofan Galinskii Archbishop of Berlin and Germany, 1954–2017
• 11 April 1987Constantine Khomich Archbishop of Brest and Kobryn, 1911–2000
• 17 May 1987Panteleimon Dolganov Metropolitan of Yaroslavl and Rostov, b. 1941
• 7 August 1988Nikandr Kovalenko Bishop of Zvenigorod, 1954–2023
• 1 December 1988Aleksii Kutepov Metropolitan of Tula and Yefremov, b. 1953
• 23 July 1989Dimitrii Drozdov Archbishop of Vitebsk and Orsha, b. 1953
• 29 July 1990Aristarkh Stankevich Archbishop of Homieĺ and Zhlobin, 1941–2012
• 16 June 1991Constantine Goryanov Metropolitan of Petrozavodsk and Karelia, b. 1951
• 24 July 1992Peter Karpusyuk Bishop of Dyatlava, 1959–2020
• 4 February 1996Artemii Kishchenko Archbishop of Hrodna and Vaŭkavysk, 1952–2023
• 4 August 1996Gurii Apalko Archbishop of Navahrudak and Slonim, b. 1956
• 10 August 1997Feodosii Bilchenko Archbishop of Polatsk and Hlybokaye, b. 1943
• 15 January 2000Serapheim Tsujie Archbishop of Tokyo, Metropolitan of All Japan, b. 1951
• 6 February 2000Merkurii Ivanov Metropolitan of Rostov and Novocherkassk, b. 1964
• 4 February 2001Sofronii Yushchuk Archbishop of Mahilioŭ and Mstsislaw, b. 1951
• 30 January 2005Stephen Neshcheret Archbishop of Homieĺ and Zhlobin, b. 1966
• 2 June 2005Pankratii Zherdev Archbishop of Troitskii, b. 1955
• 22 April 2007Serapheim Belonozhko Bishop of Babruysk and Bykhaw, b. 1973
• 12 February 2008Leonid Fil Bishop of Turov and Mazyr, b. 1960
• 28 May 2009Nazarii Lavrinenko Bishop of Kuznetsk and Nikolsk, b. 1952
• 21 March 2010Benjamin Tupeko Bishop of Borisov and Maryina Horka, b. 1968

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata