Evsevii Savvin

Life

Born

15 May 1939

Monastic tonsure

15 October 1964

Ordained deacon

22 November 1964

Ordained priest

14 November 1965

Consecrated bishop

1 April 1984

Made archbishop

25 February 1991

Made metropolitan

25 February 2008

Retired

14 May 2018

Sees

1. 1 April 1984 – 1990

   Bishop of Almaty and Kazakhstan

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1990 – 25 February 1991

   Bishop of Kuibyshev and Syzran

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 25 February 1991 – 1993

   Archbishop of Kuibyshev and Syzran

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 1993 – 25 February 2008

   Archbishop of Pskov and Velikie Luki

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 25 February 2008 – 2014

   Metropolitan of Pskov and Velikie Luki

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 2014 – 14 May 2018

   Metropolitan of Pskov and Porkhov

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 14 May 2018 – present

   Former Metropolitan of Pskov and Porkhov

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 1 April 1984 by:

• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• Filaret Vakhromeyev Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk, 1935–2021
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Serapion Fadeyev Metropolitan of Tula and Belyov, 1933–1999
• Job Tyvonyuk Metropolitan of Chelyabinsk and Zlatoust, 1938–2020
• Sergii Fomin Metropolitan of Voronezh and Liski, b. 1949

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 11 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Evsevii Savvin Metropolitan of Pskov and Porkhov consecrated 1 April 1984
2. Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008 consecrated 3 September 1961
3. Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978 consecrated 10 July 1960
4. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
5. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
6. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
7. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
8. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
9. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
10. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
11. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
12. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 5

• 17 May 1987Panteleimon Dolganov Metropolitan of Yaroslavl and Rostov, b. 1941
• 13 September 1987Gregory Chirkov Archbishop of Mozhaisk, 1942–2018
• 5 October 1989Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• 6 February 2000Merkurii Ivanov Metropolitan of Rostov and Novocherkassk, b. 1964
• 2 September 2001Alexander Agrikov Metropolitan of Bryansk and Sevsk, b. 1953

Sources

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