Benjamin Milov

Life

Born

8 July 1887

Monastic tonsure

7 April 1920

Ordained deacon

12 April 1920

Ordained priest

8 October 1920

Made archimandrite

7 April 1923

Consecrated bishop

4 February 1955

Died

2 August 1955

Sees

1. 4 February 1955 – 2 August 1955

   Bishop of Saratov and Balashov

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 4 February 1955 by:

• Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970
• Melchisedek III Pkhaladze Catholicos and Patriarch of All Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta and Tbilisi, 1872–1960
• Nicholas Yarushevich Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna, 1892–1961
• John Sokolov Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1877–1968
• Gregory Chukov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1870–1955
• Tobias Ostroumov Archbishop of Molotov, 1884–1957
• Anthony Krotevich Metropolitan of Ivanovo and Kineshma, 1889–1973
• Makarii Dayev Archbishop of Mozhaisk, 1888–1960
• Andrew Sukhenko Former Archbishop of Omsk and Tyumen, 1900–1973
• John Razumov Metropolitan of Pskov and Porkhov, 1898–1990

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. Benjamin Milov Bishop of Saratov and Balashov consecrated 4 February 1955
2. Gregory Chukov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1870–1955 consecrated 14 October 1942
3. Sergii Stragorodskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1867–1944 consecrated 25 February 1901
4. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
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

Sources

• ru.wikipedia.org