Apollos Rzhanitsyn

Life

Born

1 September 1872

Ordained deacon

23 January 1894

Ordained priest

16 January 1896

Consecrated bishop

19 December 1927

Died

21 September 1937

Sees

1. 19 December 1927 – 1929/1930

   Bishop of Totma

   Vicar of Vologda · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1929/1930 – 1931

   Bishop of Nyandomsk

   Vicar of Vologda · Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 1931 – 1937

   Bishop of Arkhangelsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 1937

   Bishop of Morshansk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 1937 – 21 September 1937

   Bishop of Tula

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 19 December 1927 by:

• Silvester Bratanovskii Former Archbishop of Kaluga, 1871–1931

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. Apollos Rzhanitsyn Bishop of Tula consecrated 19 December 1927
2. Silvester Bratanovskii Former Archbishop of Kaluga, 1871–1931 consecrated 4 April 1910
3. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
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

Sources

• wikidata.org

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