Hermogen Orekhov

Life

Born

28 December 1929

Monastic tonsure

1963

Ordained deacon

28 May 1963

Ordained priest

June 1963

Made archimandrite

25 February 1965

Consecrated bishop

25 December 1966

Made archbishop

9 September 1977

Died

27 January 1980

Sees

1. 25 December 1966 – 25 June 1971

   Bishop of Podolsk

   Vicar of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 25 June 1971 – 25 August 1972

   Bishop of Vilnius and Lithuania

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 25 August 1972 – 9 September 1977

   Bishop of Kalinin and Kashin

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 9 September 1977 – 10 April 1978

   Archbishop of Kalinin and Kashin

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 10 April 1978 – 27 January 1980

   Archbishop of Krasnodar and Kuban

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 25 December 1966 by:

• Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978
• Filaret Denysenko Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus'-Ukraine, b. 1929
• Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003
• Melkhisedek Lebedev Archbishop of Bryansk and Sevsk, 1927–2016
• Filaret Vakhromeyev Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk, 1935–2021
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Michael Mudyugin Archbishop of Vologda and Velikii Ustyug, 1912–2000

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. Hermogen Orekhov Archbishop of Krasnodar and Kuban consecrated 25 December 1966
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 5

• 22 October 1967Gedeon Dokukin Metropolitan of Stavropol and Vladikavkaz, 1929–2003
• 10 December 1967Nicholas Sayama Archbishop of Ramenskoye, 1914–2008
• 6 December 1968Herman Timofeyev Metropolitan of Volgograd, b. 1937
• 3 June 1973Victorin Belyayev Archbishop of Vilnius and Lithuania, 1903–1990
• 16 November 1975Juvenal Tarasov Former Schema-Metropolitan of Kursk and Rylsk, 1929–2013

Sources

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