Tikhon Obolenskii

Life

Born

25 May 1856

Monastic tonsure

February 1890

Ordained priest

29 April 1890

Made archimandrite

20 December 1891

Consecrated bishop

14 January 1901

Made archbishop

1918

Made metropolitan

1924

Died

May 1926

Sees

1. 14 January 1901 – 1908

   Bishop of Nikolayev

   Vicar of Samara · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1908 – 1918

   Bishop of Nikolayev and the Urals

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 1918 – 1924

   Archbishop of Nikolayev and the Urals

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 1924 – May 1926

   Metropolitan of the Urals

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 14 January 1901 by:

• Gurii Buratovskii Bishop of Simbirsk and Syzran, 1845–1907
• Nikandr Molchanov Archbishop of Vilnius and Lithuania, 1852–1910
• Vladimir Sokolovskii-Avtonomov Archbishop of Ekaterinoslav, 1852–1931
• John Alekseyev Bishop of Perm and Solikamsk, 1862–1905

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. Tikhon Obolenskii Metropolitan of the Urals consecrated 14 January 1901
2. Vladimir Sokolovskii-Avtonomov Archbishop of Ekaterinoslav, 1852–1931 consecrated 20 December 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 4

• 6 August 1912Dionisii Prozorovskii Archbishop of Rostov-on-Don, 1870–1937
• 11 July 1921Nicholas Pozdnev Archbishop of Moscow, Saratov and All Russia, 1853–1934
• 1 August 1923John Bratolyubov Archbishop of Ulyanovsk and Melekess, 1882–1968
• 18 March 1924Paul Flerinskii Bishop of Pokrovsk, 1871–1940

Sources

Also in: Wikidata