Leonid Polyakov

Life

Born

19 February 1913

Ordained deacon

13 November 1949

Ordained priest

20 November 1949

Monastic tonsure

1 September 1952

Made archimandrite

18 July 1957

Consecrated bishop

11 June 1959

Made archbishop

29 April 1962

Made metropolitan

7 September 1979

Died

8 September 1990

Sees

1. 11 June 1959 – 9 April 1962

   Bishop of Kursk and Belgorod

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 9 April 1962 – 29 April 1962

   Bishop of Mozhaisk

   Vicar of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 29 April 1962 – 5 August 1963

   Archbishop of Mozhaisk

   Vicar of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 5 August 1963 – 20 May 1964

   Archbishop of Yaroslavl and Rostov

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 20 May 1964 – 7 July 1966

   Archbishop of Perm and Solikamsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 1966

   Locum tenens of Sverdlovsk and Chelyabinsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 7 July 1966 – 7 September 1979

   Archbishop of Riga and Latvia

   Patriarchate of Moscow

8. 7 September 1979 – 8 September 1990

   Metropolitan of Riga and Latvia

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 11 June 1959 by:

• Nicholas Yarushevich Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna, 1892–1961
• Roman Tang Archbishop of Vilnius and Lithuania, 1893–1963
• Pimen Izvekov Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1910–1990

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. Leonid Polyakov Metropolitan of Riga and Latvia consecrated 11 June 1959
2. Nicholas Yarushevich Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna, 1892–1961 consecrated 7 April 1922
3. Benjamin Kazanskii Metropolitan of Petrograd and Gdov, 1873–1922 consecrated 24 January 1910
4. Vladimir Bogoyavlenskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1848–1918 consecrated 13 June 1888
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 6

• 8 July 1962Serapheim Nikitin Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna, 1905–1979
• 26 August 1962Nikon Fomichyov Archbishop of Perm and Solikamsk, 1910–1995
• 29 August 1962Mefodii Menzak Archbishop of Omsk and Tyumen, 1914–1974
• 23 May 1963Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003
• 9 November 1963Bogolep Antsukh Archbishop of Kirovohrad and Mykolaiv, 1911–1978
• 24 October 1965Filaret Vakhromeyev Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk, 1935–2021

Sources

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