Feofan Galinskii

Life

Born

8 July 1954

Monastic tonsure

4 January 1976

Ordained deacon

7 January 1976

Ordained priest

17 April 1977

Made archimandrite

14 February 1985

Consecrated bishop

11 January 1987

Made archbishop

23 February 1996

Died

11 September 2017

Sees

1. 11 January 1987 – 25 December 1991

   Bishop of Kashirskoye

   Vicar of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 25 December 1991 – 22 December 1992

   Bishop of Berlin and Leipzig

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 22 December 1992 – 23 February 1996

   Bishop of Berlin and Germany

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 23 February 1996 – 11 September 2017

   Archbishop of Berlin and Germany

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 11 January 1987 by:

• Filaret Vakhromeyev Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk, 1935–2021
• Job Tyvonyuk Metropolitan of Chelyabinsk and Zlatoust, 1938–2020
• Mefodii Nemtsov Metropolitan of Perm and Kungur, b. 1949

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 11 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Feofan Galinskii Archbishop of Berlin and Germany consecrated 11 January 1987
2. Job Tyvonyuk Metropolitan of Chelyabinsk and Zlatoust, 1938–2020 consecrated 3 January 1975
3. Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003 consecrated 23 May 1963
4. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
5. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
6. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
7. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
8. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
9. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
10. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
11. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
12. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 9

• 11 April 1987Simon Ishunin Archbishop of Brussels and Belgium, b. 1951
• 14 January 2002Hilarion Alfeyev Metropolitan of Budapest and Hungary, b. 1966
• 11 May 2003Sofian Pătrunjel Bishop of Brașov, b. 1970
• 7 July 2005Ignatii Punin Bishop of Minusinsk and Kuraginsk, b. 1973
• 27 September 2006Marcel Vetrov Bishop of Tsarskoye Selo, 1952–2019
• 26 November 2006Elisei Ganaba Archbishop of the Hague and the Netherlands, b. 1962
• 14 February 2009Joacheim Hrdý Metropolitan of Beroun, b. 1973
• 28 May 2009Nazarii Lavrinenko Bishop of Kuznetsk and Nikolsk, b. 1952
• 5 September 2010Nestor Sirotenko Metropolitan of Stupino, b. 1974

Sources

Also in: Wikidata