Mefodii Gerasimov

Life

Born

22 February 1856

Monastic tonsure

26 September 1885

Ordained deacon

10 November 1885

Ordained priest

22 December 1885

Made archimandrite

16 May 1893

Consecrated bishop

2 June 1894

Made archbishop

22 April 1918

Made metropolitan

1929

Died

1931

Sees

1. 2 June 1894 – 24 December 1898

   Bishop of Biisk

   Vicar of Tomsk · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 24 December 1898 – 20 December 1912

   Bishop of Zabaikal and Nerchinsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 20 December 1912 – 30 July 1914

   Bishop of Tomsk and Altai

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 30 July 1914 – 22 April 1918

   Bishop of Orenburg and Turgai

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 22 April 1918 – 1920

   Archbishop of Orenburg and Turgai

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 1920 – 24 March 1922

   Former Archbishop of Orenburg and Turgai

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 24 March 1922 – 1929

   Archbishop of Harbin and Manchuria

   ROCOR

8. 1929 – 1931

   Metropolitan of Harbin and Manchuria

   ROCOR

Consecration

Consecrated 2 June 1894 by:

• Makarii Nevskii Metropolitan of Altai, 1835–1926
• Alexander Bogdanov Bishop of Tambov and Shatsk, 1830–1898

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 1 generation back to Makarii Nevskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Mefodii Gerasimov Metropolitan of Harbin and Manchuria consecrated 2 June 1894
2. Makarii Nevskii Metropolitan of Altai, 1835–1926 consecrated 24 February 1884

Bishops he consecrated 4

• 12 February 1899Sergii Petrov Former Archbishop of Novorossiisk and the Black Sea, 1864–1935
• 11 May 1908John Smirnov Archbishop of Irkutsk and Verkholensk, 1857–1918
• 14 December 1914Serapheim Aleksandrov Metropolitan of Kazan and Sviyazhsk, 1866–1937
• 23 April 1922Sofronii Starkov Bishop of Arzamas, 1875–1932

Sources

Also in: Wikidata