Dimitrii Drozdov

Life

Born

22 January 1953

Monastic tonsure

30 March 1978

Ordained deacon

29 April 1978

Ordained priest

15 April 1984

Elected bishop

6 July 1989

Consecrated bishop

23 July 1989

Made archbishop

19 February 1999

Sees

1. 23 July 1989 – 7 July 1992

   Bishop of Polatsk and Vitebsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 7 July 1992 – 19 February 1999

   Bishop of Vitebsk and Orsha

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 19 February 1999 – present

   Archbishop of Vitebsk and Orsha

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 23 July 1989 by:

• Ignatios IV Hazim Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, 1920–2012
• Filaret Vakhromeyev Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk, 1935–2021
• Maksim Krokha Archbishop of Mahilioŭ and Mstsislaw, 1928–2002
• Valentine Mishchuk Metropolitan of Orenburg and Buzuluk, b. 1940
• Gibran Ramlaoui Archbishop of Australia and New Zealand, 1931–1999
• Constantine Khomich Archbishop of Brest and Kobryn, 1911–2000
• Nephon Saykali Metropolitan of Philippopolis (Chehba), cons. 1988

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 11 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Dimitrii Drozdov Archbishop of Vitebsk and Orsha consecrated 23 July 1989
2. Filaret Vakhromeyev Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk, 1935–2021 consecrated 24 October 1965
3. Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978 consecrated 10 July 1960
4. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
5. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
6. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
7. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
8. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
9. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
10. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
11. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
12. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 18

• 29 July 1990Aristarkh Stankevich Archbishop of Homieĺ and Zhlobin, 1941–2012
• 16 June 1991Constantine Goryanov Metropolitan of Petrozavodsk and Karelia, b. 1951
• 24 July 1992Peter Karpusyuk Bishop of Dyatlava, 1959–2020
• 4 February 1996Artemii Kishchenko Archbishop of Hrodna and Vaŭkavysk, 1952–2023
• 4 August 1996Gurii Apalko Archbishop of Navahrudak and Slonim, b. 1956
• 2 February 2003George Danilov Metropolitan of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas, b. 1964
• 30 January 2005Stephen Neshcheret Archbishop of Homieĺ and Zhlobin, b. 1966
• 21 March 2010Benjamin Tupeko Bishop of Borisov and Maryina Horka, b. 1968
• 8 April 2012Augustine Anisimov Bishop of Gorodets and Vetluga, b. 1945
• 22 April 2012Barnabas Baranov Bishop of Karasuk and Ordynskoye, b. 1965
• 18 November 2012Basil Danilov Bishop of Kotlas and Velsk, b. 1956
• 27 January 2013Varlaam Ponomaryov Archbishop of Makhachkala and Derbent, b. 1974
• 2 December 2014Paul Timofeyenkov Bishop of Molodechno and Stolbtsy, b. 1963
• 3 January 2015Anthony Doronin Archbishop of Hrodna and Vaŭkavysk, b. 1980
• 1 August 2016Eugene Kulberg Metropolitan of Ekaterinburg and Verkhoturye, b. 1972
• 20 November 2017Ignatii Suranov Bishop of Cherepovets and Belozersk, b. 1978
• 23 August 2020Ambrose Fedukovich Bishop of Trakai, b. 1977
• 5 June 2022Evsevii Tyukhlov Bishop of Drutsk, b. 1975

Sources

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