Joseph Orekhov

Life

Born

2 April 1871

Ordained deacon

1896

Ordained priest

1896

Consecrated bishop

9 June 1945

Made archbishop

22 February 1950

Made metropolitan

25 February 1959

Died

14 January 1961

Sees

1. 9 June 1945 – 22 February 1950

   Bishop of Voronezh and Ostrogozhsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 22 February 1950 – 8 February 1954

   Archbishop of Voronezh and Ostrogozhsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 8 February 1954 – 25 February 1959

   Archbishop of Voronezh and Lipetsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 25 February 1959 – 14 January 1961

   Metropolitan of Voronezh and Lipetsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 9 June 1945 by:

• Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970
• John Sokolov Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1877–1968
• Philip Stavitskii Archbishop of Astrakhan and Saratov, 1884–1952
• Nicholas Mogilevskii Metropolitan of Almaty and Kazakhstan, 1877–1955
• Basil Ratmirov Archbishop of Minsk and Belarus, 1882–1970
• Paisii Obraztsov Bishop of Ulyanovsk and Melekess, 1888–1953
• Makarii Dayev Archbishop of Mozhaisk, 1888–1960

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 9 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Joseph Orekhov Metropolitan of Voronezh and Lipetsk consecrated 9 June 1945
2. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
3. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
4. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
5. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
6. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
7. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
8. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
9. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
10. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Sources

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