Boris Vik

Life

Born

28 August 1906

Monastic tonsure

1934

Ordained priest

1935

Ordained deacon

May 1935

Made archimandrite

August 1943

Consecrated bishop

2 April 1944

Made archbishop

24 October 1951

Made metropolitan

25 February 1959

Died

16 April 1965

Sees

1. 2 April 1944 – 16 April 1945

   Bishop of Nizhyn

   Vicar of Chernihiv · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 16 April 1945 – 13 January 1947

   Bishop of Chernihiv and Nizhyn

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 13 January 1947 – 4 March 1949

   Bishop of Saratov and Volyn

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 1948 – 4 March 1949

   Locum tenens of Chkalov

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 4 March 1949 – 26 September 1950

   Bishop of Chkalov

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 26 September 1950 – 24 October 1951

   Bishop of Berlin and Germany

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 24 October 1951 – 11 November 1954

   Archbishop of Berlin and Germany

   Exarch of Western Europe · Patriarchate of Moscow

8. 1954

   Locum tenens of Yaroslavl

   Patriarchate of Moscow

9. 11 November 1954 – 25 April 1956

   Archbishop of the Aleutian Islands and North America

   Patriarchate of Moscow

10. 25 April 1956 – 25 February 1959

    Archbishop of Kherson and Odessa

    Patriarchate of Moscow

11. 25 February 1959 – 16 April 1965

    Metropolitan of Kherson and Odessa

    Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 2 April 1944 by:

• Sergii Stragorodskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1867–1944
• Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970
• Nicholas Yarushevich Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna, 1892–1961
• Stephen Protsenko Metropolitan of Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv, 1889–1960
• Gregory Chukov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1870–1955
• Aleksii Sergeyev Former Archbishop of Almaty and Kazakhstan, 1889–1968
• Hilarion Ilin Archbishop of Cheboksary and Chuvash, 1869–1951

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 8 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Boris Vik Metropolitan of Kherson and Odessa consecrated 2 April 1944
2. Sergii Stragorodskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1867–1944 consecrated 25 February 1901
3. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
4. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
5. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
6. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
7. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
8. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
9. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 12

• 28 April 1946Pankratii Kashperuk Former Archbishop of Volyn, 1890–1972
• 7 June 1953Leonid Lobachyov Archbishop of Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv, d. 1967
• 17 December 1953Nicholas Eryomin Metropolitan of Korsun, 1892–1985
• 28 November 1954Isaiah Kovalyov Bishop of Uglich, 1882–1960
• 14 August 1955Sergii Kostin Bishop of Kostroma and Halych, 1885–1959
• 25 December 1955John Alekseyev Former Archbishop of Gorky and Arzamas, 1892–1966
• 21 July 1956Aleksii Konoplyov Metropolitan of Kalinin and Kashin, 1910–1988
• 27 September 1956Gregory Zakalyak Archbishop of Mukachevo and Uzhhorod, 1908–1984
• 17 November 1957Pimen Izvekov Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1910–1990
• 13 March 1960Sergii Petrov Metropolitan of Odessa and Kherson, 1924–1990
• 10 September 1961Nicholas Kutepov Metropolitan of Gorky and Arzamas, 1924–2001
• 31 May 1964Anthony Melnikov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1924–1986

Sources

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