Alexander Kudrjašovs

Life

Born

3 October 1939

Ordained deacon

1982

Ordained priest

1982

Monastic tonsure

10 July 1989

Made archimandrite

11 July 1989

Consecrated bishop

23 July 1989

Made archbishop

25 February 1994

Made metropolitan

25 February 2002

Sees

1. 23 July 1989 – 27 October 1990

   Bishop of Daugavpils

   Vicar of Riga · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 27 October 1990 – 25 February 1994

   Bishop of Riga and All Latvia

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 25 February 1994 – 25 February 2002

   Archbishop of Riga and All Latvia

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 25 February 2002 – present

   Metropolitan of Riga and All Latvia

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 23 July 1989 by:

• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014
• Gedeon Dokukin Metropolitan of Stavropol and Vladikavkaz, 1929–2003
• Serapion Fadeyev Metropolitan of Tula and Belyov, 1933–1999
• Barnabas Kedrov Metropolitan of Cheboksary and Chuvash, 1931–2020
• Ilian Vostryakov Bishop of Serpukhov, b. 1945
• Leo Tserpitskii Metropolitan of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, b. 1946
• Paisii Samchuk Archbishop of Oryol and Livny, 1930–2008
• Victor Oleinik Metropolitan of Tver and Kashin, b. 1940
• Vladimir Cantarean Metropolitan of Chișinău and Moldova, b. 1952

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. Alexander Kudrjašovs Metropolitan of Riga and All Latvia consecrated 23 July 1989
2. Vladimir Cantarean Metropolitan of Chișinău and Moldova, b. 1952 consecrated 21 July 1989
3. Leontii Bondar Metropolitan of Orenburg and Buzuluk, 1913–1999 consecrated 10 August 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 5

• 19 August 2006Alexander Matryonin Bishop of Daugavpils and Rēzekne, b. 1973
• 20 August 2006Aristarkh Smirnov Metropolitan of Kemerovo and Prokopievsk, b. 1959
• 12 July 2015Nicholas Krivenko Bishop of Severobaikalsk and Sosnovo-Ozerskoye, b. 1971
• 27 March 2016John Sichyovskii Bishop of Jelgava, b. 1978
• 15 August 2023John Lipšāns Bishop of Valmiera, b. 1957

Sources

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