Tihon Cacealchin

Life

Born

2 April 1878

Consecrated bishop

25 August 1940

Made metropolitan

April 1942

Died

4 March 1968

Sees

1. 25 August 1940 – April 1942

   Bishop of Tulchyn

   Romanian Orthodox Old Believer Church (Brăila Metropolia)

2. April 1942 – 4 March 1968

   Metropolitan of Belaya Krinitsa

   Romanian Orthodox Old Believer Church (Brăila Metropolia)

Consecration

Consecrated 25 August 1940 by:

• Silouan Kravtsov Metropolitan of Belaya Krinitsa, d. 1941
• Innocent Usov Metropolitan of Belaya Krinitsa, b. 1870
• Savvatii Bishop of Slavsk

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 Gregory VI Phourtouniades; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Tihon Cacealchin Metropolitan of Belaya Krinitsa consecrated 25 August 1940
2. Innocent Usov Metropolitan of Belaya Krinitsa, b. 1870 consecrated 27 April 1903
3. Joasaph Zelenkin Bishop of Kazan and Vyatka, 1838–1912 consecrated 23 March 1893
4. Cyril Mukhin Bishop of Nizhny Novgorod, 1821–1903 consecrated 24 November 1876
5. Anthony Shutov Archbishop of Moscow and All Rus', 1800–1881 consecrated 3 February 1853
6. Cyril Timofeyev Archbishop of Belaya Krinitsa and Metropolitan of All Old Orthodox Christians, 1786–1873 consecrated 6 January 1847
7. Ambrose Pappa-Georgopoli Metropolitan of Belaya Krinitsa, 1791–1863 consecrated 1835
8. Gregory VI Phourtouniades Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1798–1881 consecrated 24 October 1825