Vladimir Tikhonitskii

Life

Born

4 April 1873

Monastic tonsure

27 September 1897

Ordained deacon

11 October 1897

Ordained priest

22 February 1898

Made archimandrite

6 May 1901

Consecrated bishop

3 June 1907

Made archbishop

30 November 1923

Made metropolitan

8 July 1947

Died

18 December 1959

Sees

1. 3 June 1907 – 30 November 1923

   Bishop of Białystok

   Vicar of Hrodna · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 30 November 1923 – 8 July 1947

   Archbishop of Białystok

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 8 July 1947 – 18 December 1959

   Metropolitan of Białystok

   Exarch of the Russian Orthodox Parishes of Western Europe · Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 3 June 1907 by:

• Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912

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. Vladimir Tikhonitskii Metropolitan of Białystok consecrated 3 June 1907
2. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
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

• 30 August 1911Pakhomii Kedrov Archbishop of Chernihiv and Nizhyn, 1876–1937
• 3 April 1916Serapheim Ostroumov Archbishop of Smolensk and Dorogobuzh, 1880–1937
• 4 June 1922Alexander Inozemtsev Metropolitan of Pinsk and Poliske, 1887–1948
• 27 February 1935John Leonchukov Bishop of Sergiev, 1866–1947
• 1946Nikon de Greve Archbishop of Brooklyn, 1895–1983
• 28 July 1947Cassian Bezobrazov Bishop of Catania, 1892–1965
• 9 October 1950John Kurakin Bishop of Messenia, 1874–1950
• 27 April 1952Silvester Haruns Archbishop of Montréal and Canada, 1914–2000
• 4 October 1953George Tarassoff Archbishop of Syracuse, 1893–1981

Sources

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