Valentine Rusantsov

Life

Born

3 March 1939

Monastic tonsure

21 October 1958

Ordained deacon

26 October 1958

Ordained priest

3 September 1961

Made archimandrite

1973

Consecrated bishop

10 February 1991

Made archbishop

1994

Made metropolitan

15 March 2001

Died

16 January 2012

Sees

1. 10 February 1991 – July 1993

   Bishop of Suzdal and Vladimir

   ROCOR

2. July 1993 – March 1994

   Former Bishop of Suzdal and Vladimir

   ROCOR

3. March 1994 – 1995

   Archbishop of Suzdal and Vladimir

   Higher Church Administration of the ROC

4. 1995 – 15 March 2001

   Archbishop of Suzdal and Vladimir

   Russian Orthodox Free Church

5. 15 March 2001 – 16 January 2012

   Metropolitan of Suzdal and Vladimir and Primate of the ROAC

   Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church

Consecration

Consecrated 10 February 1991 by:

• Anthony Bartoshevich Archbishop of Geneva and Western Europe, 1910–1993
• Mark Arndt Metropolitan of Berlin and Germany, b. 1941
• Barnabas Prokofiev Bishop of Cannes, 1945–2017
• Gregory Grabbe Bishop of Washington and Florida, 1902–1995

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. Valentine Rusantsov Metropolitan of Suzdal and Vladimir consecrated 10 February 1991
2. Anthony Bartoshevich Archbishop of Geneva and Western Europe, 1910–1993 consecrated 5 May 1957
3. John Maximovich Archbishop of San Francisco and Western America, 1896–1966 consecrated 1934
4. Anthony Khrapovitsky Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1863–1936 consecrated 7 September 1897
5. Arsenii Bryantsev Archbishop of Kharkiv and Okhtyrka, 1839–1914 consecrated 17 May 1882
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 10

• 24 November 1990Irinarkh Nonchin Bishop of Tula and Bryansk, b. 1967
• 19 March 1994Theodore Gineyevskii Metropolitan of Suzdal and Vladimir, b. 1955
• 27 March 1994Agafangel Pashkovskii Metropolitan of New York and Eastern America, Archbishop of Taurida and Odessa, b. 1956
• 18 April 1995Arsenii Kiselev Metropolitan of Kolomna and Mozhaisk, cons. 1995
• 6 February 2001Gerontii Ryndenko Bishop of Sukhodilsk, 1946–2008
• 2 December 2001Gregory George (Abu-Asaly) Archbishop of Denver and Colorado, b. 1944
• 17 July 2003Sebastian Zhatkov Bishop of Chelyabinsk, b. 1941
• 25 June 2006Andrew McLachlin Archbishop of Pavlovskoye and Rockland, b. 1953
• 6 February 2011Trofim Tarasov Bishop of Simbirsk, cons. 2011
• 10 February 2011Mark Rossokha Bishop of Armavir, cons. 2011

Sources

Also in: Wikidata