Čestmir Kráčmar

Life

Born

1894

Ordained priest

1929

Consecrated bishop

5 February 1950

Died

17 July 1953

Sees

1. 5 February 1950 – 17 July 1953

   Bishop of Olomouc and Brno

   Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia

Consecration

Consecrated 5 February 1950 by:

• Elevferii Vorontsov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Ladoga, 1892–1959
• Nicholas Yarushevich Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna, 1892–1961
• Macarius Oksijuk Metropolitan of Warsaw and All Poland, 1884–1961

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 9 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Čestmir Kráčmar Bishop of Olomouc and Brno consecrated 5 February 1950
2. Nicholas Yarushevich Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna, 1892–1961 consecrated 7 April 1922
3. Benjamin Kazanskii Metropolitan of Petrograd and Gdov, 1873–1922 consecrated 24 January 1910
4. Vladimir Bogoyavlenskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1848–1918 consecrated 13 June 1888
5. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
6. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
7. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
8. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
9. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
10. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 1

• 12 February 1950Aleksii Dekhteryov Archbishop of Vilnius and Lithuania, 1889–1959