Ierofei Sobolev

Life

Born

27 October 1936

Monastic tonsure

22 November 1964

Ordained priest

30 January 1966

Made archimandrite

1979

Consecrated bishop

29 July 1991

Died

14 August 2001

Sees

1. 29 July 1991 – 14 August 2001

   Bishop of Balakhna

   Vicar of Nizhny Novgorod · Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 29 July 1991 by:

• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Nicholas Kutepov Metropolitan of Gorky and Arzamas, 1924–2001
• Leontii Bondar Metropolitan of Orenburg and Buzuluk, 1913–1999
• Barnabas Kedrov Metropolitan of Cheboksary and Chuvash, 1931–2020
• Clement Kapalin Metropolitan of Kaluga and Borovsk, b. 1949
• Ambrose Shchurov Former Archbishop of Ivanovo-Voznesensk and Kineshma, 1930–2016
• Agafangel Savvin Metropolitan of Odessa and Izmail, b. 1938
• Vladimir Ikim Metropolitan of Tashkent and Central Asia, b. 1940
• Eugene Zhdan Archbishop of Tambov and Michurinsk, 1942–2002
• Aleksii Kutepov Metropolitan of Tula and Yefremov, b. 1953
• Victor Oleinik Metropolitan of Tver and Kashin, b. 1940
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Victor Pyankov Bishop of Podilsk, b. 1944
• Dimitrii Kapalin Metropolitan of Tobolsk and Tyumen, b. 1952
• Vincent Morar Metropolitan of Tashkent and Uzbekistan, b. 1953
• Evlogii Smirnov Metropolitan of Vladimir and Suzdal, 1937–2020

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. Ierofei Sobolev Bishop of Balakhna consecrated 29 July 1991
2. Leontii Bondar Metropolitan of Orenburg and Buzuluk, 1913–1999 consecrated 10 August 1956
3. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
4. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
5. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
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

Sources

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