Benjamin Muratovskii

Life

Born

18 April 1855

Ordained priest

1 December 1877

Monastic tonsure

1896

Consecrated bishop

1897

Made archbishop

1 May 1915

Made metropolitan

1924

Died

6 May 1930

Sees

1. 1897 – 1898

   Bishop of Yamburg

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1897 – 1898

   Bishop of Yamburg

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 1898 – 1902

   Bishop of Gdov

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 1902 – 1910

   Bishop of Kaluga and Borovsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 1910 – 1 May 1915

   Bishop of Simbirsk and Syzran

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 1 May 1915 – 1920

   Archbishop of Simbirsk and Syzran

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 1920 – 1922

   Archbishop of Ryazan and Zaraisk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

8. 1922 – 1924

   Archbishop of Ryazan and Zaraisk

   Renovationist Schism (Russia)

9. 1924

   Metropolitan of Yaroslavl

   Renovationist Schism (Russia)

10. 1924 – 1925

    Metropolitan of Leningrad

    Renovationist Schism (Russia)

11. 1925 – 1927

    Metropolitan of the Northwest Region

    Renovationist Schism (Russia)

12. 1927 – 6 May 1930

    Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna

    Renovationist Schism (Russia)

Consecration

Consecrated 1897 by:

• Palladii Rayev-Pisarev Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1827–1898
• Tikhon Belavin Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1865–1925

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. Benjamin Muratovskii Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna consecrated 1897
2. Palladii Rayev-Pisarev Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1827–1898 consecrated 18 December 1866
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 12

• 21 November 1897Paul Pospelov Bishop of Shatsk, 1855–1925
• 8 March 1898Nikon Sofiiskii Archbishop of Kartalini and Kakheti, 1861–1908
• 18 March 1901Sergii Voskresenskii Bishop of Uglich, 1835–1906
• 29 July 1901Constantine Bulychev Archbishop of Mahilioŭ, b. 1858
• 30 November 1903Evfimii Eliev Bishop of Balakhna, 1846–1918
• 26 December 1919Ierofei Pomerantsev Metropolitan of Kazan and Sviyazhsk, b. 1880
• 4 January 1925Paul Krasnoretskii Bishop of Pugachyov, 1871–1938
• 8 March 1925Vladimir Pishchulin Bishop of Okhta, b. 1889
• 8 November 1925Nicholas Platonov Metropolitan of Leningrad, 1889–1942
• 1926Dosifei Stepanov Archbishop of Homieĺ and Rechytsa, d. 1937
• 1927Sergii Tanayevskii Archbishop of Ostrogozhsk, 1874–1939
• 3 April 1927Palladii Beltyukov Archbishop of Votkinsk, 1872–1932