John Alekseyev

Life

Born

20 January 1892

Ordained priest

1931

Monastic tonsure

17 December 1955

Made archimandrite

22 December 1955

Consecrated bishop

25 December 1955

Made archbishop

14 August 1961

Retired

25 May 1965

Died

16 June 1966

Sees

1. 25 December 1955 – 25 May 1958

   Bishop of Tallinn and Estonia

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 25 May 1958 – 14 August 1961

   Bishop of Riga and Latvia

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 14 August 1961 – 25 May 1965

   Archbishop of Gorky and Arzamas

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 25 May 1965 – 16 June 1966

   Former Archbishop of Gorky and Arzamas

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 25 December 1955 by:

• Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970
• Nicholas Yarushevich Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna, 1892–1961
• Boris Vik Metropolitan of Kherson and Odessa, 1906–1965
• Roman Tang Archbishop of Vilnius and Lithuania, 1893–1963

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. John Alekseyev Former Archbishop of Gorky and Arzamas consecrated 25 December 1955
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 1

• 3 September 1961Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008

Sources

Also in: Wikidata