Melchisedek Averchenko

Life

Born

11 January 1875

Monastic tonsure

1897

Ordained deacon

20 July 1906

Ordained priest

15 August 1907

Consecrated bishop

13 June 1925

Died

ca. 1937

Sees

1. 13 June 1925 – 1926

   Bishop of Andriivka

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1926 – May 1926

   Bishop of Urazovo

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. May 1926 – 30 October 1926

   Bishop of Voronezh

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 30 October 1926 – 30 October 1929

   Bishop of Pishpek and Semirechye

   Vicar of Türkıstan · Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 30 October 1929 – 24 August 1931

   Former Bishop of Pishpek and Semirechye

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 24 August 1931 – December 1931

   Bishop of Troitskii

   Vicar of Chelyabinsk · Patriarchate of Moscow

7. December 1931 – 19 October 1933

   Bishop of Kurgan

   Vicar of Tobolsk · Patriarchate of Moscow

8. 19 October 1933 – ca. 1937

   Former Bishop of Kurgan

   Vicar of Tobolsk · Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 13 June 1925 by:

• Andrew Ukhtomskii Bishop, 1872–1937
• Leo Cherepanov Bishop of Stavropol and Kuban, 1888–1937

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. Melchisedek Averchenko Bishop of Kurgan consecrated 13 June 1925
2. Andrew Ukhtomskii Bishop, 1872–1937 consecrated 4 October 1907
3. Dimitrii Sambikin Archbishop of Kazan and Sviyazhsk, 1839–1908 consecrated 4 January 1887
4. Ioannikii Rudnev Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1826–1900 consecrated 12 June 1861
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