Serapheim Aleksandrov

Life

Born

31 October 1866

Ordained deacon

1890

Ordained priest

1891

Consecrated bishop

14 December 1914

Made archbishop

1922

Made metropolitan

24 March 1924

Retired

15 November 1936

Died

2 December 1937

Sees

1. 14 December 1914 – 1916

   Bishop of Qostanai

   Vicar of Orenburg · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1916 – 1918

   Bishop of Chelyabinsk

   Vicar of Orenburg · Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 1917

   Locum tenens of Ekaterinburg

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 1918

   Bishop of Polatsk and Vitebsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 1918 – 1919

   Bishop of Staritsa

   Vicar of Tver · Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 1919 – 1922

   Bishop of Tver and Kashin

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 1922 – 24 March 1924

   Archbishop of Tver and Kashin

   Patriarchate of Moscow

8. 24 March 1924 – 1928

   Metropolitan of Tver and Kashin

   Patriarchate of Moscow

9. 1928 – 1933

   Metropolitan of Saratov

   Patriarchate of Moscow

10. 1933 – 15 November 1936

    Metropolitan of Kazan and Sviyazhsk

    Patriarchate of Moscow

11. 15 November 1936 – 2 December 1937

    Former Metropolitan of Kazan and Sviyazhsk

    Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 14 December 1914 by:

• Mefodii Gerasimov Metropolitan of Harbin and Manchuria, 1856–1931
• Dionisii Prozorovskii Archbishop of Rostov-on-Don, 1870–1937

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. Serapheim Aleksandrov Metropolitan of Kazan and Sviyazhsk consecrated 14 December 1914
2. Dionisii Prozorovskii Archbishop of Rostov-on-Don, 1870–1937 consecrated 6 August 1912
3. Aleksii Dorodnitsyn Archbishop of Vladimir and Suzdal, 1859–1919 consecrated 30 April 1904
4. Arsenii Bryantsev Archbishop of Kharkiv and Okhtyrka, 1839–1914 consecrated 17 May 1882
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

Bishops he consecrated 7

• 26 February 1917Feofan Ilmenskii Bishop of Solikamsk, 1867–1918
• 22 December 1919Nicholas Kenarskii Bishop of Lukoyanov, 1874–1920
• 18 March 1924Paul Flerinskii Bishop of Pokrovsk, 1871–1940
• 29 April 1924Nikita Delektorskii Bishop of Nizhny Tagil, 1876–1937
• 1 July 1924Paul Krylov Bishop of Novokhopyorsk, d. 1927
• 3 May 1931Serapheim Zborovskii Bishop of Aktobe and Qostanai, 1895–1937
• 1 October 1931Ioannikii Popov Bishop of Rybinsk, 1883–1942

Sources

Also in: Wikidata