Serapheim Nikitin

Life

Born

2 July 1905

Ordained priest

1951

Ordained deacon

November 1951

Monastic tonsure

20 June 1962

Made archimandrite

1 July 1962

Consecrated bishop

8 July 1962

Made archbishop

25 February 1968

Made metropolitan

25 June 1971

Retired

11 June 1977

Died

22 April 1979

Sees

1. 8 July 1962 – 25 February 1968

   Bishop of Kursk and Belgorod

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1968

   Locum tenens of Voronezh

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 25 February 1968 – 25 June 1971

   Archbishop of Kursk and Belgorod

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 25 June 1971 – 11 June 1977

   Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 11 June 1977 – 22 April 1979

   Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 8 July 1962 by:

• Pimen Izvekov Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1910–1990
• Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978
• Leonid Polyakov Metropolitan of Riga and Latvia, 1913–1990
• Cyprian Zyornov Archbishop of Berlin and Central Europe, 1911–1987
• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008

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. Serapheim Nikitin Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna consecrated 8 July 1962
2. Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978 consecrated 10 July 1960
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

Bishops he consecrated 7

• 22 November 1962John Ivanov Bishop of Kirov and Sloboda, 1912–1966
• 12 September 1968Peter L'Huiller Archbishop of New York and New Jersey, 1926–2007
• 5 March 1972Serapion Fadeyev Metropolitan of Tula and Belyov, 1933–1999
• 3 June 1973Victorin Belyayev Archbishop of Vilnius and Lithuania, 1903–1990
• 16 December 1973Platon Udovenko Metropolitan of Feodosiya and Kerch, b. 1940
• 9 May 1976Gleb Smirnov Archbishop of Oryol and Bryansk, 1913–1987
• 30 November 1976Barnabas Kedrov Metropolitan of Cheboksary and Chuvash, 1931–2020

Sources

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