Elevferii Vorontsov

Life

Born

30 October 1892

Ordained deacon

8 September 1915

Ordained priest

21 November 1915

Monastic tonsure

9 August 1943

Consecrated bishop

10 August 1943

Made archbishop

5 April 1946

Made metropolitan

18 July 1948

Retired

22 October 1956

Died

27 March 1959

Sees

1. 10 August 1943 – 5 April 1946

   Bishop of Rostov and Taganrog

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 5 April 1946 – 18 July 1948

   Archbishop of Prague and Czechoslovakia

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 18 July 1948 – 1955

   Metropolitan of Prague and Czechoslovakia

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 1955 – 22 October 1956

   Metropolitan of Leningrad and Ladoga

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 22 October 1956 – 27 March 1959

   Former Metropolitan of Leningrad and Ladoga

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 10 August 1943 by:

• Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970
• Nicholas Yarushevich Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna, 1892–1961
• Sergii Grishin Archbishop of Gorky and Arzamas, 1889–1943
• Pitirim Sviridov Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna, 1887–1963

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. Elevferii Vorontsov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Ladoga consecrated 10 August 1943
2. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
3. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
4. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
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 8

• 21 May 1944Nikon Petin Archbishop of Kherson and Odessa, 1902–1956
• 14 October 1945Nestor Sidoruk Bishop of Kursk and Belgorod, 1904–1951
• 5 February 1950Čestmir Kráčmar Bishop of Olomouc and Brno, 1894–1953
• 12 February 1950Aleksii Dekhteryov Archbishop of Vilnius and Lithuania, 1889–1959
• 30 July 1950Symeon Du Bishop of Shanghai, 1886–1965
• 15 February 1953Metod Millý Bishop of Michalovce, 1883–1966
• 24 October 1954John Kukhtin Metropolitan of Prague and All the Czech Lands and Slovakia, 1901–1975
• 30 October 1955Sergii Golubtsov Archbishop of Kazan and Mari El, 1906–1982

Sources

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