Onisifor Ponomarev

Life

Born

9 January 1881

Ordained priest

30 March 1920

Monastic tonsure

29 November 1935

Made archimandrite

January 1936

Consecrated bishop

27 February 1945

Made archbishop

30 May 1964

Died

8 October 1966

Sees

1. 27 February 1945

   Bishop of Pinsk and Brest

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 27 February 1945 – 22 March 1960

   Bishop of Kaluga and Borovsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 22 March 1960 – 30 May 1964

   Former Bishop of Kaluga and Borovsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 30 May 1964 – 8 October 1966

   Archbishop of Kaluga and Borovsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 27 February 1945 by:

• Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970

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. Onisifor Ponomarev Archbishop of Kaluga and Borovsk consecrated 27 February 1945
2. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
3. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
4. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
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

Bishops he consecrated 3

• 25 August 1946Gurii Egorov Metropolitan of Simferopol and the Crimea, 1891–1965
• 25 February 1948Andrew Sukhenko Former Archbishop of Omsk and Tyumen, 1900–1973
• 31 May 1964Anthony Melnikov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1924–1986

Sources

• wikidata.org

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