Nestor Anisimov

Life

Born

9 November 1884

Monastic tonsure

17 April 1907

Ordained deacon

6 May 1907

Ordained priest

9 May 1907

Made archimandrite

1915

Consecrated bishop

29 October 1916

Made archbishop

1933

Made metropolitan

1946

Died

4 November 1962

Sees

1. 29 October 1916 – 1933

   Bishop of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskii

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1933 – 1945

   Archbishop of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskii

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 1945 – 1946

   Archbishop of Harbin and Manchuria

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 1946 – 14 June 1948

   Metropolitan of Harbin and Manchuria

   Exarch of Eastern Asia · Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 14 June 1948 – 18 July 1956

   Metropolitan of No See

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 18 July 1956 – 8 September 1958

   Metropolitan of Novosibirsk and Barnaul

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 8 September 1958 – 9 December 1959

   Former Metropolitan of Novosibirsk and Barnaul

   Patriarchate of Moscow

8. 9 December 1959 – 4 November 1962

   Metropolitan of Kirovohrad and Mykolaiv

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 29 October 1916 by:

• Evsevii Nikolskii Metropolitan of Krutitsy, 1860–1922
• Sergii Tikhomirov Metropolitan of Tokyo and Japan, 1871–1945
• Eugene Zyornov Metropolitan of Gorky, 1877–1935
• Paul Ivanovskii Bishop of Vyazma, 1874–1919

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 8 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Nestor Anisimov Metropolitan of Kirovohrad and Mykolaiv consecrated 29 October 1916
2. Paul Ivanovskii Bishop of Vyazma, 1874–1919 consecrated 24 June 1912
3. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
4. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
5. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
6. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
7. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
8. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
9. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 7

• 10 February 1919Benjamin Fedchenkov Metropolitan of Saratov and Volsk, 1880–1961
• 4 December 1922Paul Vvedenskii Bishop of Morshansk, 1866–1937
• 3 June 1934Dimitrii Voznesenskii Archbishop of Hailar, 1871–1947
• 16 February 1935Juvenal Kilin Archbishop of Izhevsk and Udmurtia, 1875–1958
• 6 April 1941Nicholas Yamazaki/Ono Bishop of Tokyo and Japan, 1872–1956
• 22 September 1946Nikandr Viktorov Archbishop of Rostov and Novocherkassk, 1891–1961
• 4 March 1956Mstislav Volonsevich Archbishop of Kirov and Sloboda, 1906–1978