Benjamin Fedchenkov

Life

Born

12 September 1880

Monastic tonsure

26 November 1907

Ordained deacon

3 December 1907

Ordained priest

10 December 1907

Made archimandrite

26 December 1911

Consecrated bishop

10 February 1919

Made archbishop

19 April 1932

Made metropolitan

14 July 1938

Retired

20 February 1958

Died

4 October 1961

Sees

1. 10 February 1919 – 1923

   Bishop of Sevastopol

   Vicar of Taurida · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1923 – 1924

   Bishop of (in Carpatho-Rus')

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 1924 – 19 April 1932

   Bishop

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 19 April 1932 – 1933

   Archbishop

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 1933 – 14 July 1938

   Archbishop of the Aleutian Islands and North America

   Exarch of the Russian Orthodox Church in America · Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 14 July 1938 – 1951

   Metropolitan of the Aleutian Islands and North America

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 1951 – 1955

   Metropolitan of Rostov and Novocherkassk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

8. 1955 – 1957

   Metropolitan of Saratov and Balashov

   Patriarchate of Moscow

9. 1957 – 20 February 1958

   Metropolitan of Saratov and Volsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

10. 20 February 1958 – 4 October 1961

    Former Metropolitan of Saratov and Volsk

    Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 10 February 1919 by:

• Dimitrii Abashidze Archbishop of Taurida, 1847–1942
• Gabriel Chepur/Chepura Archbishop of Chelyabinsk and Troitskii, 1874–1933
• Varlaam Ryashentsev Archbishop of Perm, 1878–1942
• Nestor Anisimov Metropolitan of Kirovohrad and Mykolaiv, 1884–1962
• Anthony Abashidze Archbishop of Taurida and Simferopol, 1867–1942

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. Benjamin Fedchenkov Metropolitan of Saratov and Volsk consecrated 10 February 1919
2. Gabriel Chepur/Chepura Archbishop of Chelyabinsk and Troitskii, 1874–1933 consecrated 30 January 1910
3. Serapheim Chichagov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Gdov, 1856–1937 consecrated 28 April 1905
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 December 1943Theodore Tekuchyov Bishop of San Francisco and California, 1908–1985

Sources

• wikidata.org

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