Cyril Smirnov

Life

Born

26 April 1863

Ordained priest

21 November 1887

Monastic tonsure

10 May 1902

Consecrated bishop

6 August 1904

Made archbishop

6 May 1913

Made metropolitan

19 March 1918

Died

20 November 1937

Sees

1. 6 August 1904 – 1909

   Bishop of Gdov

   Vicar of Saint Petersburg · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1909 – 6 May 1913

   Bishop of Tambov and Shatsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 6 May 1913 – 19 March 1918

   Archbishop of Tambov and Shatsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 19 March 1918 – 1918

   Metropolitan of Tbilisi and Baku

   Exarch of the Caucasus · Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 1918 – 1922

   Metropolitan of Kazan and Sviyazhsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 1922 – 20 November 1937

   Metropolitan of No See

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 6 August 1904 by:

• Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912
• Nicholas Nalimov Archbishop of Vladimir and Suzdal, 1852–1914
• Vladimir Senkovskii/Sinkovskii Archbishop of the Don and Novocherkassk, 1847–1917
• Aleksii Sobolev Former Bishop of Vologda and Totma, 1836–1911

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. Cyril Smirnov Metropolitan of Kazan and Sviyazhsk consecrated 6 August 1904
2. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
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 3

• 5 September 1904Aleksii Belkovskii Archbishop of Velikii Ustyug and Ust-Vym, 1841–1937
• 16 December 1907Eugene Mertsalov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1857–1920
• 12 July 1920Joasaph Udalov Bishop of Chistopol, 1886–1937

Sources

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