Alexander Karpin

Life

Born

24 September 1883

Ordained deacon

1911

Ordained priest

1911

Consecrated bishop

21 September 1935

Died

13 October 1969

Sees

1. 21 September 1935 – 1945

   Bishop of Vyborg

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 1945 – 13 October 1969

   Bishop of Helsinki

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 21 September 1935 by:

• Dionysius Valedinsky Metropolitan of Warsaw and All Poland, 1876–1960
• Alexander Paulus Metropolitan of Tallinn and All Estonia, 1872–1953
• Herman Aav Archbishop of Karelia and All Finland, 1878–1961
• Nicholas Leisman Archbishop of Petseri (Pechory), 1862–1947

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. Alexander Karpin Bishop of Helsinki consecrated 21 September 1935
2. Alexander Paulus Metropolitan of Tallinn and All Estonia, 1872–1953 consecrated 5 December 1920
3. Serapheim Lukoyanov Former Metropolitan of Western Europe, 1879–1959 consecrated 7 September 1914
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

Sources

Also in: Wikidata