Paul Pospelov

Life

Born

23 January 1855

Ordained priest

29 May 1877

Monastic tonsure

26 October 1890

Made archimandrite

1893

Consecrated bishop

21 November 1897

Died

1925

Sees

1. 21 November 1897 – 1899

   Bishop of Staritsa

   Vicar of Tver · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1899 – 1905

   Former Bishop of Staritsa

   Vicar of Tver · Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 1905 – 1918

   Bishop of Glazov

   Vicar of Vyatka · Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 1918 – ca. 1921

   Bishop of Kozlovka

   Vicar of Tambov · Patriarchate of Moscow

5. ca. 1921 – 1923

   Bishop of Shatsk

   Vicar of Tambov · Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 1923 – 1925

   Bishop of Shatsk

   Vicar of Ryazan · Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 21 November 1897 by:

• Palladii Rayev-Pisarev Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1827–1898
• Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912
• Dimitrii Sambikin Archbishop of Kazan and Sviyazhsk, 1839–1908
• Nazarii Kirillov Metropolitan of Kursk and Oboyan, 1850–1928
• John Kratirov Bishop of Saratov and Tsaritsyn, 1839–1909
• Benjamin Muratovskii Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1855–1930

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. Paul Pospelov Bishop of Shatsk consecrated 21 November 1897
2. Palladii Rayev-Pisarev Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1827–1898 consecrated 18 December 1866
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 1

• 26 February 1917Feofan Ilmenskii Bishop of Solikamsk, 1867–1918