Evlogii Smirnov

Life

Born

13 January 1937

Monastic tonsure

15 March 1965

Ordained deacon

21 March 1965

Ordained priest

19 October 1969

Made archimandrite

7 April 1973

Consecrated bishop

11 November 1990

Made archbishop

25 February 1995

Made metropolitan

18 July 2013

Retired

28 December 2018

Died

22 July 2020

Sees

1. 1990 – 25 February 1995

   Bishop of Vladimir and Suzdal

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 25 February 1995 – 18 July 2013

   Archbishop of Vladimir and Suzdal

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 18 July 2013 – 28 December 2018

   Metropolitan of Vladimir and Suzdal

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 28 December 2018 – 22 July 2020

   Former Metropolitan of Vladimir and Suzdal

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 11 November 1990 by:

• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• Simon Novikov Metropolitan of Ryazan and Kasimov, 1928–2006
• Valentine Mishchuk Metropolitan of Orenburg and Buzuluk, b. 1940
• Longin Talypin Archbishop of Klin, 1946–2014
• Nicholas Shkrumko Metropolitan of Izhevsk and Udmurtia, 1927–2015
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Victor Pyankov Bishop of Podilsk, b. 1944

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 11 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Evlogii Smirnov Metropolitan of Vladimir and Suzdal consecrated 11 November 1990
2. Simon Novikov Metropolitan of Ryazan and Kasimov, 1928–2006 consecrated 14 October 1972
3. Aleksii Konoplyov Metropolitan of Kalinin and Kashin, 1910–1988 consecrated 21 July 1956
4. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
5. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
6. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
7. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
8. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
9. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
10. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
11. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
12. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 14

• 29 July 1991Ierofei Sobolev Bishop of Balakhna, 1936–2001
• 28 March 1993Herman Moralin Metropolitan of Kursk and Rylsk, b. 1956
• 3 October 1993Simon Getya Metropolitan of Oryol and Bolkhov, b. 1949
• 12 September 1995Savva Volkov Archbishop of Tiraspol and Dubăsari, b. 1958
• 15 March 1998Cyril Nakonechnii Metropolitan of Kazan and Tatarstan, b. 1961
• 30 January 2000Evstafii Evdokimov Archbishop of Alexandrovsk and Yuriev-Polskii, b. 1951
• 31 March 2002Feognost Guzikov Metropolitan of Kashira, b. 1960
• 2 June 2005Pankratii Zherdev Archbishop of Troitskii, b. 1955
• 10 August 2006Roman Gavrilov Bishop of Serpukhov, b. 1957
• 20 August 2006Aristarkh Smirnov Metropolitan of Kemerovo and Prokopievsk, b. 1959
• 19 August 2011Innocent Yakovlev Bishop of Alexandrovsk and Yuriev-Polskii, b. 1947
• 22 April 2012Barnabas Baranov Bishop of Karasuk and Ordynskoye, b. 1965
• 2 May 2012Nil Sychev Bishop of Murom and Vyazniki, b. 1964
• 27 January 2013Varlaam Ponomaryov Archbishop of Makhachkala and Derbent, b. 1974

Sources

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