Mstislav Volonsevich

Life

Born

25 November 1906

Monastic tonsure

April 1934

Ordained deacon

April 1934

Ordained priest

February 1935

Consecrated bishop

4 March 1956

Made archbishop

25 February 1965

Died

2 April 1978

Sees

1. 4 March 1956 – 8 August 1957

   Bishop of Velikii Lutsk and Toropets

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 8 August 1957 – 21 February 1958

   Bishop of Sverdlovsk and Irbit

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 21 February 1958 – 27 July 1959

   Bishop of Omsk and Tyumen

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 27 July 1959 – 15 October 1959

   Bishop of Vologda and Cherepovets

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 15 October 1959 – 25 February 1965

   Bishop of Vologda and Velikii Ustyug

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 25 February 1965 – 25 May 1965

   Archbishop of Vologda and Velikii Ustyug

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 25 May 1965 – 14 May 1966

   Archbishop of Gorky and Arzamas

   Patriarchate of Moscow

8. 14 May 1966 – 7 October 1967

   Former Archbishop of Gorky and Arzamas

   Patriarchate of Moscow

9. 7 October 1967 – 2 April 1978

   Archbishop of Kirov and Sloboda

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 4 March 1956 by:

• Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970
• Nestor Anisimov Metropolitan of Kirovohrad and Mykolaiv, 1884–1962
• Basil Samaha Metropolitan of Bostra, 1920–2002

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. Mstislav Volonsevich Archbishop of Kirov and Sloboda consecrated 4 March 1956
2. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
3. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
4. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
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

Bishops he consecrated 3

• 10 August 1956Leontii Bondar Metropolitan of Orenburg and Buzuluk, 1913–1999
• 5 July 1964Jonah Zyryanov Bishop of Stavropol and Baku, 1924–1975
• 23 October 1966Clement Perestyuk Archbishop of Sverdlovsk and Kurgan, 1904–1986

Sources

Also in: Wikidata