Maksim Krokha

Life

Born

25 December 1928

Monastic tonsure

24 August 1949

Ordained deacon

17 April 1950

Ordained priest

24 September 1954

Made archimandrite

1962

Consecrated bishop

26 March 1972

Made archbishop

7 September 1984

Died

27 February 2002

Sees

1. 26 March 1972 – 1973

   Bishop of Argentina and South America

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1973 – 1974

   Former Bishop of Argentina and South America

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 1974 – 7 September 1984

   Bishop of Omsk and Tyumen

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 7 September 1984 – 1986

   Archbishop of Omsk and Tyumen

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 1986 – 1989

   Archbishop of Tula and Belyov

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 1989 – 27 February 2002

   Archbishop of Mahilioŭ and Mstsislaw

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 26 March 1972 by:

• Pimen Izvekov Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1910–1990
• Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978
• Filaret Denysenko Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus'-Ukraine, b. 1929
• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• Anthony Melnikov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1924–1986
• Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 10 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Maksim Krokha Archbishop of Mahilioŭ and Mstsislaw consecrated 26 March 1972
2. Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978 consecrated 10 July 1960
3. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
4. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
5. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
6. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
7. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
8. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
9. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
10. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
11. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 10

• 22 April 1989Anthony Cheremisov Archbishop of Oryol and Bolkhov, 1939–2026
• 23 April 1989George Gryaznov Archbishop of Lyudinovo, 1934–2011
• 21 July 1989Vladimir Cantarean Metropolitan of Chișinău and Moldova, b. 1952
• 23 July 1989Dimitrii Drozdov Archbishop of Vitebsk and Orsha, b. 1953
• 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
• 19 August 1995Aleksii Frolov Archbishop of Kostroma and Halych, 1947–2013
• 4 February 1996Artemii Kishchenko Archbishop of Hrodna and Vaŭkavysk, 1952–2023
• 4 August 1996Gurii Apalko Archbishop of Navahrudak and Slonim, b. 1956

Sources

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