Alexander Vitols

Life

Born

5 June 1876

Ordained priest

21 October 1906

Consecrated bishop

17 July 1938

Died

30 July 1942

Sees

1. 17 July 1938 – 27 October 1940

   Bishop of Zerzika

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 27 October 1940 – 30 July 1942

   Bishop of Madona

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 17 July 1938 by:

• Augustine Peterson Metropolitan of Riga and All Latvia, 1873–1955
• Alexander Paulus Metropolitan of Tallinn and All Estonia, 1872–1953
• Herman Aav Archbishop of Karelia and All Finland, 1878–1961
• Nicholas Leisman Archbishop of Petseri (Pechory), 1862–1947
• Iakov Karp Archbishop of Elba, d. 1943

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. Alexander Vitols Bishop of Madona consecrated 17 July 1938
2. Alexander Paulus Metropolitan of Tallinn and All Estonia, 1872–1953 consecrated 5 December 1920
3. Serapheim Lukoyanov Former Metropolitan of Western Europe, 1879–1959 consecrated 7 September 1914
4. Vladimir Bogoyavlenskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1848–1918 consecrated 13 June 1888
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

Also in: Wikidata