Nestor Fomin

Life

Born

31 August 1849

Monastic tonsure

16 September 1889

Ordained deacon

16 September 1889

Ordained priest

2 February 1890

Made archimandrite

25 May 1892

Consecrated bishop

15 April 1901

Died

19 August 1910

Sees

1. 15 April 1901 – 1903

   Bishop of Balakhna

   Vicar of Nizhny Novgorod · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1903 – 19 August 1910

   Bishop of Novhorod-Siverskyi

   Vicar of Chernihiv · Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 15 April 1901 by:

• Arsenii Bryantsev Archbishop of Kharkiv and Okhtyrka, 1839–1914
• Nazarii Kirillov Metropolitan of Kursk and Oboyan, 1850–1928
• Platon Gruzov Bishop of Murom, 1843–1904
• Aleksii Opotskii Archbishop of Tver and Kashin, 1837–1914

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 Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Nestor Fomin Bishop of Novhorod-Siverskyi consecrated 15 April 1901
2. Arsenii Bryantsev Archbishop of Kharkiv and Okhtyrka, 1839–1914 consecrated 17 May 1882
3. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
4. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
5. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
6. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
7. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
8. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 1

• 19 May 1902Mikhei Alekseyev Bishop of Ufa and Menzelinsk, 1851–1931