Arkadii Afonin

Life

Born

15 July 1943

Monastic tonsure

29 December 1966

Ordained deacon

15 February 1967

Ordained priest

9 March 1969

Made archimandrite

1988

Consecrated bishop

21 April 1991

Retired

17 July 2001

Died

3 June 2021

Sees

1. 21 April 1991 – 23 February 1993

   Bishop of Magadan and Kamchatka

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 23 February 1993 – 3 October 1997

   Bishop of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and the Kurile Islands

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 1993

   Locum tenens of Magadan and Chukotka

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 3 October 1997 – 29 December 1999

   Bishop of Tomsk and Asino

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 29 December 1999 – 17 July 2001

   Bishop of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and the Kurile Islands

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 17 July 2001 – 3 June 2021

   Former Bishop of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and the Kurile Islands

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 21 April 1991 by:

• 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 11 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Arkadii Afonin Former Bishop of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and the Kurile Islands consecrated 21 April 1991
2. Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008 consecrated 3 September 1961
3. Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978 consecrated 10 July 1960
4. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
5. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
6. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
7. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
8. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
9. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
10. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
11. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
12. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 6

• 21 July 1993Nikon Mironov Bishop of Kudymkar and Vereshchagino, b. 1960
• 16 April 1994Eugene Reshetnikov Archbishop of Vereya, b. 1957
• 1 August 1997Jonathan Tsvetkov Archbishop of Abakan and Khakassia, b. 1962
• 21 July 2009Lazar Gurkin Bishop of Narva and Prichudye, b. 1969
• 28 January 2012Ephrem Prosyanok Archbishop of Birobidzhan and Kuldur, b. 1977
• 2 December 2012Theodore Belkov Bishop of Pokrovsk and Novouzensk, b. 1960

Sources

• wikidata.org

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