Vladimir Kotlyarov

Life

Born

27 May 1929

Ordained deacon

22 May 1953

Ordained priest

24 May 1953

Monastic tonsure

February 1962

Made archimandrite

October 1962

Consecrated bishop

30 December 1962

Made archbishop

20 October 1967

Made metropolitan

25 February 1992

Retired

19 March 2014

Died

19 January 2022

Sees

1. 30 December 1962 – 30 March 1964

   Bishop of Zvenigorod

   Vicar of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 30 March 1964 – 5 February 1965

   Bishop of Voronezh and Lipetsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 5 February 1965 – 19 November 1966

   Bishop of Podolsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 19 November 1966 – 7 October 1967

   Bishop of Kirov and Sloboda

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 7 October 1967 – 20 October 1967

   Bishop of Berlin and Central Europe

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 20 October 1967 – 1 December 1970

   Archbishop of Berlin and Central Europe

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 1 December 1970 – 31 May 1973

   Archbishop of Rostov and Novocherkassk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

8. 31 May 1973 – 17 April 1975

   Archbishop of Irkutsk and Chita

   Patriarchate of Moscow

9. 17 April 1975 – 24 April 1980

   Archbishop of Vladimir and Suzdal

   Patriarchate of Moscow

10. 24 April 1980 – 12 May 1987

    Archbishop of Krasnodar and Kuban

    Patriarchate of Moscow

11. 12 May 1987 – 25 February 1992

    Archbishop of Pskov and Porkhov

    Patriarchate of Moscow

12. 25 February 1992 – 22 February 1993

    Metropolitan of Pskov and Porkhov

    Patriarchate of Moscow

13. 22 February 1993 – 27 December 1995

    Metropolitan of Rostov and Novocherkassk

    Patriarchate of Moscow

14. 27 December 1995 – 19 March 2014

    Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga

    Patriarchate of Moscow

15. 19 March 2014 – 19 January 2022

    Former Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga

    Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 30 December 1962 by:

• Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970
• Pimen Izvekov Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1910–1990
• Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978
• Anthony Bloom Metropolitan of Sourozh, 1914–2003
• Filaret Denysenko Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus'-Ukraine, b. 1929

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 9 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Vladimir Kotlyarov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga consecrated 30 December 1962
2. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
3. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
4. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
5. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
6. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
7. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
8. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
9. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
10. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 9

• 7 August 1988Nikandr Kovalenko Bishop of Zvenigorod, 1954–2023
• 1 December 1988Aleksii Kutepov Metropolitan of Tula and Yefremov, b. 1953
• 1 September 1990Peter Păduraru Metropolitan of Bessarabia, b. 1946
• 22 March 1992Paul Ponomaryov Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna, b. 1952
• 26 March 1994Nektarii Korobov Bishop of Saratov and Volsk, 1942–1994
• 27 September 2006Marcel Vetrov Bishop of Tsarskoye Selo, 1952–2019
• 28 May 2009Nazarii Lavrinenko Bishop of Kuznetsk and Nikolsk, b. 1952
• 21 September 2011Adrian Ulyanov Bishop of Rzhev and Toropets, b. 1951
• 22 May 2012Mstislav Dyachina Bishop of Tikhvin and Lodeinoye Pole, b. 1967

Sources

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