Serafim Gachkovskii

Life

Born

12 April 1925

Monastic tonsure

24 July 1948

Ordained deacon

28 August 1948

Ordained priest

27 September 1956

Made archimandrite

19 August 1972

Consecrated bishop

13 December 1975

Died

14 April 1982

Sees

1. 13 December 1975 – 14 April 1982

   Bishop of Almaty and Kazakhstan

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 13 December 1975 by:

• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• Sergii Petrov Metropolitan of Odessa and Kherson, 1924–1990
• Feodosii Dikun Metropolitan of Poltava and Kremenchuk, 1926–2001
• Agafangel Savvin Metropolitan of Odessa and Izmail, b. 1938

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. Serafim Gachkovskii Bishop of Almaty and Kazakhstan consecrated 13 December 1975
2. Sergii Petrov Metropolitan of Odessa and Kherson, 1924–1990 consecrated 13 March 1960
3. Boris Vik Metropolitan of Kherson and Odessa, 1906–1965 consecrated 2 April 1944
4. Sergii Stragorodskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1867–1944 consecrated 25 February 1901
5. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
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

Sources

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