Saint Benjamin Kazanskii

Life

Born

17 April 1873 (April 17, 1873/July 3, 1874)

Ordained deacon

1895

Monastic tonsure

14 October 1895

Ordained priest

1896

Made archimandrite

1902

Consecrated bishop

24 January 1910

Made archbishop

6 March 1917

Made metropolitan

13 August 1917

Died

13 August 1922

Canonized

date unknown

Sees

1. 24 January 1910 – 6 March 1917

   Bishop of Gdov

   Vicar of Saint Petersburg · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 6 March 1917 – 13 August 1917

   Archbishop of Petrograd and Ladoga

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 13 August 1917

   Archbishop of Petrograd and Gdov

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 13 August 1917 – 13 August 1922

   Metropolitan of Petrograd and Gdov

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 24 January 1910 by:

• Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912
• Vladimir Bogoyavlenskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1848–1918
• Flavian Gorodetskii Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1840–1915

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 7 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

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

Bishops he consecrated 9

• 28 April 1913Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970
• 2 June 1913Panteleimon Rozhnovskii Metropolitan of Minsk and Belarus, 1867–1950
• 8 January 1917Varsonofii Lebedev Bishop of Kirillovskoye, 1871–1918
• 30 July 1917Artemii Ilinskii Archbishop of Tobolsk and Siberia, 1870–1937
• January 1918Platon Kulbusch Bishop of Revel, 1869–1919
• 3 June 1918Simon Shleyov Bishop of Ufa and Sterlitamak, 1873–1921
• 28 August 1920Benedict Plotnikov Archbishop of Kazan and Sviyazhsk, 1872–1937
• 7 April 1922Nicholas Yarushevich Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna, 1892–1961
• 9 April 1922Innocent Tikhonov Archbishop of Vinnytsya, 1889–1937

Sources

Also in: Wikidata