Anatolii Kuznetsov

Life

Born

28 May 1930

Ordained deacon

31 October 1954

Ordained priest

1 July 1956

Monastic tonsure

11 October 1960

Made archimandrite

21 April 1968

Consecrated bishop

3 September 1972

Made archbishop

25 February 1993

Retired

4 May 2017

Died

26 January 2024

Sees

1. 3 September 1972 – 1974

   Bishop of Vilnius and Lithuania

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1974 – 1979

   Bishop of Zvenigorod

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 1979 – 1990

   Bishop of Ufa and Sterlitamak

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 1990 – 25 February 1993

   Bishop of Kerch

   Vicar of Sourozh · Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 25 February 1993 – 27 December 2001

   Archbishop of Kerch

   Vicar of Sourozh · Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 27 December 2001 – 17 July 2002

   Former Archbishop of Kerch

   Vicar of Sourozh · Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 17 July 2002 – 4 May 2017

   Archbishop of Kerch

   Vicar of Sourozh · Patriarchate of Moscow

8. 4 May 2017 – 26 January 2024

   Former Archbishop of Kerch

   Vicar of Sourozh · Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 3 September 1972 by:

• Pimen Izvekov Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1910–1990
• Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Anthony Bloom Metropolitan of Sourozh, 1914–2003
• Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003
• Filaret Vakhromeyev Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk, 1935–2021
• Platon Lobankov Bishop of Voronezh and Lipetsk, 1927–1975
• Serapion Fadeyev Metropolitan of Tula and Belyov, 1933–1999
• Chrysostom Martishkin Metropolitan of Vilnius and All Lithuania, 1934–2025

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. Anatolii Kuznetsov Archbishop of Kerch consecrated 3 September 1972
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 11

• 14 October 1972Simon Novikov Metropolitan of Ryazan and Kasimov, 1928–2006
• 18 October 1972Damaskin Bodryi Bishop of Mukachevo and Uzhhorod, 1937–1989
• 18 October 1977Ambrose Shchurov Former Archbishop of Ivanovo-Voznesensk and Kineshma, 1930–2016
• 11 October 1981Longin Talypin Archbishop of Klin, 1946–2014
• 7 March 1993Basil Osborne Bishop of Amphipolis, b. 1938
• 3 October 1993Simon Getya Metropolitan of Oryol and Bolkhov, b. 1949
• 12 September 1995Savva Volkov Archbishop of Tiraspol and Dubăsari, b. 1958
• 9 September 1999Peter Arihara Bishop of Yokohama, d. 2000
• 26 November 2006Elisei Ganaba Archbishop of the Hague and the Netherlands, b. 1962
• 11 March 2007Marcel Mihăescu Archbishop of Bălţi and Făleşti, b. 1959
• 27 January 2013Varlaam Ponomaryov Archbishop of Makhachkala and Derbent, b. 1974

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata