Nicholas Sayama

Life

Born

22 November 1914

Ordained deacon

October 1956

Ordained priest

November 1956

Monastic tonsure

1 September 1962

Made archimandrite

28 August 1966

Consecrated bishop

10 December 1967

Made archbishop

16 July 1984

Died

26 August 2008

Sees

1. 10 December 1967 – 10 April 1970

   Bishop of Tokyo and Japan

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 10 April 1970 – 16 July 1984

   Bishop of Mozhaisk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 16 July 1984 – 25 December 1986

   Archbishop of Mozhaisk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 25 December 1986 – 16 May 1996

   Former Archbishop of Mozhaisk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 16 May 1996 – 26 August 2008

   Archbishop of Ramenskoye

   Vicar of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 10 December 1967 by:

• Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978
• Joseph Chernov Metropolitan of Almaty and Kazakhstan, 1893–1975
• Nikon Fomichyov Archbishop of Perm and Solikamsk, 1910–1995
• Bartholomew Gondarovskii Archbishop of Oryol and Bryansk, 1927–1988
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Michael Mudyugin Archbishop of Vologda and Velikii Ustyug, 1912–2000
• Hermogen Orekhov Archbishop of Krasnodar and Kuban, 1929–1980
• Gedeon Dokukin Metropolitan of Stavropol and Vladikavkaz, 1929–2003

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. Nicholas Sayama Archbishop of Ramenskoye consecrated 10 December 1967
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 2

• 19 October 1971Serapheim Sigrist Bishop of Sendai, b. 1941
• 18 October 1978Serapheim Tikhonov Archbishop of Penza and Kuznetsy, 1935–2000

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata