Innocent Leoferov

Life

Born

28 August 1890

Ordained priest

6 August 1912

Monastic tonsure

16 April 1949

Consecrated bishop

13 December 1953

Made archbishop

28 August 1958

Died

6 September 1971

Sees

1. 13 December 1953 – 28 August 1958

   Bishop of Kirovohrad and Mykolaiv

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 28 August 1958 – August 1960

   Archbishop of Almaty and Kazakhstan

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. August 1960 – 23 November 1960

   Former Archbishop of Almaty and Kazakhstan

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 23 November 1960 – 6 September 1971

   Archbishop of Kalinin and Kashin

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 13 December 1953 by:

• John Sokolov Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1877–1968
• Hilarion Prokhorov Archbishop of Penza and Saransk, 1889–1973
• Hilarion Kochergin Bishop of Khmelnytskyi and Kamyanets-Podilskyi, 1884–1965
• Evstratii Podolskii Former Bishop of Sumy and Okhtyrka, 1887–1972
• Nestor Tugai Bishop of Chernihiv and Nizhyn, 1900–1969

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 10 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Innocent Leoferov Archbishop of Kalinin and Kashin consecrated 13 December 1953
2. Hilarion Prokhorov Archbishop of Penza and Saransk, 1889–1973 consecrated 30 September 1945
3. Stephen Protsenko Metropolitan of Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv, 1889–1960 consecrated 26 August 1926
4. Sergii Stragorodskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1867–1944 consecrated 25 February 1901
5. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
6. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
7. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
8. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
9. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
10. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
11. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 3

• 4 August 1957Joseph Savrash Archbishop of Ivano-Frankivsk and Kolomyya, 1909–1984
• 17 November 1957Pimen Izvekov Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1910–1990
• 15 June 1958Alipii Khotovitskii Former Archbishop of Vinnytsya and Bratslav, 1901–1977

Sources

Also in: Wikidata