Serapheim Pozdeyev

Life

Born

1885/1887

Monastic tonsure

1919

Consecrated bishop

1925

Died

16 May 1971

Sees

1. 1925 – date unknown

   Bishop of Smolensk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. date unknown – 16 May 1971

   Bishop of Smolensk

   True Orthodox Church (Gennadii)

Consecration

Consecrated 1925 by:

• Tikhon Belavin Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1865–1925

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 8 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Serapheim Pozdeyev Bishop of Smolensk consecrated 1925
2. Tikhon Belavin Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1865–1925 consecrated 19 October 1897
3. Palladii Rayev-Pisarev Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1827–1898 consecrated 18 December 1866
4. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
5. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
6. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
7. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
8. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
9. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 2

• 1965Alfei Aleksandr Archbishop of Barnaul, d. 1975
• 1971Genadii Sekach Bishop, 1898–1987