Cyril Pospelov

Life

Born

20 March 1876

Ordained deacon

1 October 1898

Ordained priest

1906

Monastic tonsure

29 March 1944

Consecrated bishop

1 April 1944

Made archbishop

25 February 1951

Died

18 December 1953

Sees

1. 1 April 1944 – July 1944

   Bishop of Penza and Saransk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. July 1944 – 20 June 1946

   Bishop of Tashkent and Central Asia

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 20 June 1946 – 27 January 1947

   Bishop of Ivanovo

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 27 January 1947 – 25 February 1951

   Bishop of Penza and Saransk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 25 February 1951 – 18 December 1953

   Archbishop of Penza and Saransk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 1 April 1944 by:

• Sergii Stragorodskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1867–1944
• Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970
• Gregory Chukov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1870–1955
• Aleksii Sergeyev Former Archbishop of Almaty and Kazakhstan, 1889–1968
• Hilarion Ilin Archbishop of Cheboksary and Chuvash, 1869–1951

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 8 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Cyril Pospelov Archbishop of Penza and Saransk consecrated 1 April 1944
2. Sergii Stragorodskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1867–1944 consecrated 25 February 1901
3. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
4. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
5. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
6. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
7. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
8. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
9. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 2

• 27 August 1944Onisim Festinatov Archbishop of Vladimir and Suzdal, 1890–1970
• 26 January 1947Alexander Vinogradov Bishop of Zhytomyr and Ovruch, 1882–1951

Sources

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