Alexander Paulus

Life

Born

2 February 1872

Ordained priest

29 August 1901

Consecrated bishop

5 December 1920

Made archbishop

5 December 1920

Made metropolitan

1923

Died

18 October 1953

Sees

1. 5 December 1920 – 1923

   Archbishop of Revel and Estonia

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1923 – 18 October 1953

   Metropolitan of Tallinn and All Estonia

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 5 December 1920 by:

• Eusebios Grozdov Archbishop of Narva and Izborsk, 1866–1929
• Serapheim Lukoyanov Former Metropolitan of Western Europe, 1879–1959

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. Alexander Paulus Metropolitan of Tallinn and All Estonia consecrated 5 December 1920
2. Serapheim Lukoyanov Former Metropolitan of Western Europe, 1879–1959 consecrated 7 September 1914
3. Vladimir Bogoyavlenskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1848–1918 consecrated 13 June 1888
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 8

• 8 July 1923Herman Aav Archbishop of Karelia and All Finland, 1878–1961
• 25 April 1926John Bulin Bishop of Pechory (Petseri), 1893–1941
• 21 September 1935Alexander Karpin Bishop of Helsinki, 1883–1969
• 29 March 1936Augustine Peterson Metropolitan of Riga and All Latvia, 1873–1955
• 27 September 1936Iakov Karp Archbishop of Elba, d. 1943
• 3 October 1937Paul Dmitrovskii Archbishop of Tallinn and Estonia, 1872–1946
• 17 July 1938Alexander Vitols Bishop of Madona, 1876–1942
• 7 August 1943Peter Pyakhkel Bishop of Petseri (Pechory), 1875–1948

Sources

Also in: Wikidata