Khrisanf Chepil

Life

Born

24 June 1937

Ordained deacon

18 July 1967

Ordained priest

15 March 1970

Monastic tonsure

30 March 1971

Made archimandrite

28 April 1971

Consecrated bishop

23 April 1978

Made archbishop

9 September 1988

Made metropolitan

29 February 2004

Died

4 January 2011

Sees

1. 23 April 1978 – 9 September 1988

   Bishop of Kirov and Sloboda

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 9 September 1988 – 29 February 2004

   Archbishop of Kirov and Sloboda

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 21 April 1994 – 29 February 2004

   Archbishop of Vyatka and Sloboda

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 29 February 2004 – 4 January 2011

   Metropolitan of Vyatka and Sloboda

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 23 April 1978 by:

• Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978
• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Meliton Solovyov Archbishop of Tikhvin, 1897–1986
• Damaskin Bodryi Bishop of Mukachevo and Uzhhorod, 1937–1989
• Isidore Kirichenko Metropolitan of Ekaterinodar and Kuban, 1941–2020

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. Khrisanf Chepil Metropolitan of Kirov and Sloboda consecrated 23 April 1978
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 4

• 11 April 1987Simon Ishunin Archbishop of Brussels and Belgium, b. 1951
• 17 May 1987Panteleimon Dolganov Metropolitan of Yaroslavl and Rostov, b. 1941
• 31 May 1987Eugene Zhdan Archbishop of Tambov and Michurinsk, 1942–2002
• 27 September 1989Alexander Mogilyov Metropolitan of Astana and Kazakhstan, b. 1957

Sources

Also in: Wikidata