Aleksii I Simanskii

Life

Born

27 October 1877

Monastic tonsure

9 February 1902

Ordained deacon

17 March 1902

Ordained priest

1903

Consecrated bishop

28 April 1913

Made archbishop

1926

Made metropolitan

1932

Became patriarch

4 February 1945

Died

17 April 1970

Sees

1. 1913 – 1921

   Bishop of Tikhvin

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1921 – 1926

   Bishop of Yamburg

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 1926 – 1932

   Archbishop of Khutyn

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 1932

   Metropolitan of Khutyn

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 1932 – 4 February 1945

   Metropolitan of Leningrad

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 4 February 1945 – 17 April 1970

   Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus'

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 28 April 1913 by:

• Gregory IV Haddad Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, 1859–1928
• Arsenii Stadnitskii Metropolitan of Tashkent and Türkıstan, 1862–1936
• Nikon Rozhdestvenskii Archbishop of Vologda and Totma, 1851–1919
• Eusebios Grozdov Archbishop of Narva and Izborsk, 1866–1929
• Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918
• Benjamin Kazanskii Metropolitan of Petrograd and Gdov, 1873–1922

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 8 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' consecrated 28 April 1913
2. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
3. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
4. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
5. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
6. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
7. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
8. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
9. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 84

• 1922Sofronii Ivantsov Bishop of Krasnoyarsk, 1880–1947
• 7 April 1922Nicholas Yarushevich Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna, 1892–1961
• 27 May 1928Fotii Tapiro/Topiro Archbishop of Lviv and Ternopil, 1884–1952
• 29 March 1931Nicholas Muravyov-Uralskii Archbishop of Murom, 1882–1961
• 21 September 1931Hermogen Kozhin Metropolitan of the Aleutian Islands and North America, 1880–1954
• 19 November 1931Tarasii Livanov Bishop of Barnaul, b. 1877
• 7 April 1932Ephrem Efremov Bishop of Kursk and Oboyan, 1889–1941
• 10 April 1932Artemon Evstratov Former Bishop of Kursk and Oboyan, 1889–1937
• 21 September 1932Alexander Toropov Bishop of Rybinsk, 1861–1937
• 13 August 1933George Sadkovskii Bishop of Porkhov, 1896–1948
• 21 August 1933Alexander Tolstopyatov Archbishop of Molotov and Solikamsk, 1878–1945
• 27 June 1934Flavian Ivanov Archbishop of Rostov and Novocherkassk, 1889–1958
• 10 August 1943Elevferii Vorontsov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Ladoga, 1892–1959
• 22 December 1943Zinovii Krasovskii Former Bishop of Gorky and Arzamas, 1884–1954
• 1 April 1944Cyril Pospelov Archbishop of Penza and Saransk, 1876–1953
• 2 April 1944Boris Vik Metropolitan of Kherson and Odessa, 1906–1965
• 13 May 1944Maksim Bachinskii Bishop of Velikii Lutsk and Toropets, 1897–1953
• 14 May 1944Makarii Dayev Archbishop of Mozhaisk, 1888–1960
• 21 May 1944Nicholas Chufarovskii Archbishop of Ryazan and Kasimov, 1884–1967
• 13 August 1944Joasaph Zhurmanov Archbishop of Tambov and Michurinsk, 1877–1962
• 27 August 1944Onisim Festinatov Archbishop of Vladimir and Suzdal, 1890–1970
• 8 September 1944Paisii Obraztsov Bishop of Ulyanovsk and Melekess, 1888–1953
• 27 November 1944Tobias Ostroumov Archbishop of Molotov, 1884–1957
• 31 December 1944Ieronim Zakharov Archbishop of Rostov and Novocherkassk, 1897–1966
• 27 February 1945Onisifor Ponomarev Archbishop of Kaluga and Borovsk, 1881–1966
• 22 April 1945Macarius Oksijuk Metropolitan of Warsaw and All Poland, 1884–1961
• 9 June 1945Joseph Orekhov Metropolitan of Voronezh and Lipetsk, 1871–1961
• 26 August 1945Arsenii Krylov Former Bishop of Kostroma and Halych, 1879–1962
• 30 December 1945Varsonofii Grinevich Archbishop of Kalinin and Kashin, 1875–1958
• 14 April 1946Serapheim Sharapov Bishop of Poltava and Kremenchuk, 1878–1959
• 30 May 1946Tikhon Kazasov Bishop of Smolyan, 1901–1978
• 25 August 1946Gurii Egorov Metropolitan of Simferopol and the Crimea, 1891–1965
• 26 January 1947Alexander Vinogradov Bishop of Zhytomyr and Ovruch, 1882–1951
• 18 February 1947Benedict Polyakov Archbishop of Zhytomyr and Ovruch, 1884–1963
• 30 March 1947Palladii Kaminskii Archbishop of Zhytomyr and Ovruch, 1896–1978
• 22 June 1947Isidore Bogoyavlenskii Bishop of Tallinn and Estonia, 1879–1949
• 29 June 1947Nektarii Grigoriev Metropolitan of Chișinău and Moldova, 1902–1969
• 25 February 1948Andrew Sukhenko Former Archbishop of Omsk and Tyumen, 1900–1973
• 7 March 1948Vladimir Kobets Archbishop of Zhytomyr and Ovruch, 1884–1960
• 9 May 1948Filaret Lebedev Archbishop of Riga and All Latvia, 1887–1958
• 15 June 1948Michael Kedrov Bishop of Wrocław and Szczecin, 1883–1951
• 29 August 1948Gabriel Ogorodnikov Archbishop of Tashkent and Central Asia, 1890–1971
• 30 January 1949Innocent Zelnitskii Archbishop of Tambov and Michurinsk, 1886–1968
• 20 November 1949Evstratii Podolskii Former Bishop of Sumy and Okhtyrka, 1887–1972
• 16 April 1950Roman Tang Archbishop of Vilnius and Lithuania, 1893–1963
• 30 July 1950Symeon Du Bishop of Shanghai, 1886–1965
• 1 March 1953Hermogen Golubev Archbishop of Kaluga and Borovsk, 1896–1978
• 7 June 1953Leonid Lobachyov Archbishop of Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv, d. 1967
• 30 November 1953John Razumov Metropolitan of Pskov and Porkhov, 1898–1990
• 4 December 1953Michael Voskresenskii Archbishop of Kazan and Mari El, 1897–1976
• 28 November 1954Isaiah Kovalyov Bishop of Uglich, 1882–1960
• 4 February 1955Benjamin Milov Bishop of Saratov and Balashov, 1887–1955
• 12 June 1955Dorotheos Filipp Metropolitan of Prague and All the Czech Lands and Slovakia, 1913–1999
• 14 August 1955Sergii Kostin Bishop of Kostroma and Halych, 1885–1959
• 30 October 1955Sergii Golubtsov Archbishop of Kazan and Mari El, 1906–1982
• 25 December 1955John Alekseyev Former Archbishop of Gorky and Arzamas, 1892–1966
• 4 March 1956Mstislav Volonsevich Archbishop of Kirov and Sloboda, 1906–1978
• 14 June 1956Donat Shcheglov Archbishop of Kaluga and Borovsk, 1899–1979
• 21 July 1956Aleksii Konoplyov Metropolitan of Kalinin and Kashin, 1910–1988
• 10 August 1956Leontii Bondar Metropolitan of Orenburg and Buzuluk, 1913–1999
• 27 September 1956Gregory Zakalyak Archbishop of Mukachevo and Uzhhorod, 1908–1984
• 19 July 1957Polycarp Priimak Bishop of Penza and Saransk, 1912–1989
• 17 November 1957Pimen Izvekov Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1910–1990
• 20 April 1958Flavian Dmitriyuk Archbishop of Gorky and Arzamas, 1895–1977
• 28 December 1958John Vendland Metropolitan of Yaroslavl, 1909–1989
• 12 March 1959Nikon Lysenko Former Bishop of Voronezh and Lipetsk, 1890–1972
• 10 May 1959Innocent Sokal Former Bishop of Smolensk and Dorogobuzh, 1883–1965
• 10 July 1960Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978
• 26 March 1961Cassian Yaroslavskii Former Archbishop of Kostroma and Halych, 1899–1990
• 6 August 1961Cyprian Zyornov Archbishop of Berlin and Central Europe, 1911–1987
• 10 August 1961Nikodim Rusnak Metropolitan of Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv, 1921–2011
• 14 January 1962Leontii Gudimov Metropolitan of Donetsk and Slovyansk, 1928–1992
• 2 December 1962Feodosii Protsyuk Metropolitan of Omsk and Tara, 1927–2016
• 30 December 1962Vladimir Kotlyarov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1929–2022
• 23 May 1963Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003
• 9 November 1963Bogolep Antsukh Archbishop of Kirovohrad and Mykolaiv, 1911–1978
• 31 May 1964Anthony Melnikov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1924–1986
• 10 January 1965Pimen Khmelevskii Archbishop of Saratov and Volsk, 1923–1993
• 31 October 1965Nicholas Yurik Metropolitan of Lviv and Ternopil, 1910–1984
• 28 November 1965Jonathan Kopolovich Archbishop of Chișinău and Moldova, 1912–1990
• 30 January 1966Irinei Susemihl Metropolitan of Vienna and Austria, 1919–1999
• 20 March 1966Dionisii Lukin Bishop of Rotterdam, 1911–1976
• 23 October 1966Clement Perestyuk Archbishop of Sverdlovsk and Kurgan, 1904–1986
• 30 October 1966Joasaph Ovsyannikov Archbishop of Rostov and Novocherkassk, 1904–1984

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata