Victorin Belyayev

Life

Born

13 June 1903

Ordained priest

29 April 1928

Monastic tonsure

1 June 1973

Made archimandrite

1 June 1973

Consecrated bishop

3 June 1973

Made archbishop

9 September 1982

Died

16 March 1990

Sees

1. 3 June 1973 – 3 September 1974

   Bishop of Perm and Solikamsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 3 September 1974 – 13 March 1975

   Bishop of Vienna and Austria

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 13 March 1975 – 11 June 1977

   Bishop of Aleksin

   Vicar of Tula · Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 11 June 1977 – 10 April 1978

   Bishop of Tula and Belyov

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 10 April 1978 – 9 September 1982

   Bishop of Vilnius and Lithuania

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 9 September 1982 – 16 March 1990

   Archbishop of Vilnius and Lithuania

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 3 June 1973 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
• Serapheim Nikitin Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna, 1905–1979
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Sergii Petrov Metropolitan of Odessa and Kherson, 1924–1990
• Nicholas Yurik Metropolitan of Lviv and Ternopil, 1910–1984
• Nikodim Rusnak Metropolitan of Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv, 1921–2011
• Leontii Gudimov Metropolitan of Donetsk and Slovyansk, 1928–1992
• Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003
• Melkhisedek Lebedev Archbishop of Bryansk and Sevsk, 1927–2016
• Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014
• Hermogen Orekhov Archbishop of Krasnodar and Kuban, 1929–1980
• Platon Lobankov Bishop of Voronezh and Lipetsk, 1927–1975
• Serapion Fadeyev Metropolitan of Tula and Belyov, 1933–1999
• Chrysostom Martishkin Metropolitan of Vilnius and All Lithuania, 1934–2025

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. Victorin Belyayev Archbishop of Vilnius and Lithuania consecrated 3 June 1973
2. Nicholas Yurik Metropolitan of Lviv and Ternopil, 1910–1984 consecrated 31 October 1965
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 1

• 31 August 1980Afanasii Former Archbishop of Perm and Solikamsk, 1927–2002

Sources

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