Pitirim Nechayev

Life

Born

8 January 1926

Ordained deacon

15 February 1952

Ordained priest

4 December 1954

Monastic tonsure

13 April 1959

Made archimandrite

8 October 1959

Consecrated bishop

23 May 1963

Made archbishop

9 September 1971

Made metropolitan

30 December 1986

Died

4 November 2003

Sees

1. 23 May 1963 – 9 September 1971

   Bishop of Volokolamsk

   Vicar of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1964 – 1965

   Locum tenens of Smolensk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 9 September 1971 – 30 December 1986

   Archbishop of Volokolamsk

   Vicar of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 30 December 1986 – 4 November 2003

   Metropolitan of Volokolamsk

   Vicar of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 23 May 1963 by:

• Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970
• Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978
• Leonid Polyakov Metropolitan of Riga and Latvia, 1913–1990
• Leonid Lobachyov Archbishop of Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv, d. 1967
• Sergii Golubtsov Archbishop of Kazan and Mari El, 1906–1982
• Cyprian Zyornov Archbishop of Berlin and Central Europe, 1911–1987
• Donat Shcheglov Archbishop of Kaluga and Borovsk, 1899–1979

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. Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev consecrated 23 May 1963
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 53

• 9 November 1963Bogolep Antsukh Archbishop of Kirovohrad and Mykolaiv, 1911–1978
• 10 January 1965Pimen Khmelevskii Archbishop of Saratov and Volsk, 1923–1993
• 12 February 1965Anthony Vakarik Metropolitan of Chernihiv and Nizhyn, 1926–2003
• 17 June 1965Melkhisedek Lebedev Archbishop of Bryansk and Sevsk, 1927–2016
• 28 November 1965Jonathan Kopolovich Archbishop of Chișinău and Moldova, 1912–1990
• 12 December 1965John Snychyov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Ladoga, 1927–1995
• 26 December 1965Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• 30 January 1966Irinei Susemihl Metropolitan of Vienna and Austria, 1919–1999
• 20 March 1966Dionisii Lukin Bishop of Rotterdam, 1911–1976
• 9 July 1966Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014
• 23 October 1966Clement Perestyuk Archbishop of Sverdlovsk and Kurgan, 1904–1986
• 25 December 1966Hermogen Orekhov Archbishop of Krasnodar and Kuban, 1929–1980
• 5 March 1972Serapion Fadeyev Metropolitan of Tula and Belyov, 1933–1999
• 26 March 1972Maksim Krokha Archbishop of Mahilioŭ and Mstsislaw, 1928–2002
• 3 September 1972Anatolii Kuznetsov Archbishop of Kerch, 1930–2024
• 3 June 1973Victorin Belyayev Archbishop of Vilnius and Lithuania, 1903–1990
• 16 December 1973Platon Udovenko Metropolitan of Feodosiya and Kerch, b. 1940
• 3 January 1975Job Tyvonyuk Metropolitan of Chelyabinsk and Zlatoust, 1938–2020
• 9 May 1976Gleb Smirnov Archbishop of Oryol and Bryansk, 1913–1987
• 25 July 1976Valentine Mishchuk Metropolitan of Orenburg and Buzuluk, b. 1940
• 30 November 1976Barnabas Kedrov Metropolitan of Cheboksary and Chuvash, 1931–2020
• 18 October 1977Ambrose Shchurov Former Archbishop of Ivanovo-Voznesensk and Kineshma, 1930–2016
• 27 April 1980Mefodii Nemtsov Metropolitan of Perm and Kungur, b. 1949
• 30 January 1983Sergii Fomin Metropolitan of Voronezh and Liski, b. 1949
• 30 June 1985Vladimir Ikim Metropolitan of Tashkent and Central Asia, b. 1940
• 21 July 1985Nicholas Shkrumko Metropolitan of Izhevsk and Udmurtia, 1927–2015
• 17 May 1987Panteleimon Dolganov Metropolitan of Yaroslavl and Rostov, b. 1941
• 22 April 1989Anthony Cheremisov Archbishop of Oryol and Bolkhov, 1939–2026
• 23 April 1989George Gryaznov Archbishop of Lyudinovo, 1934–2011
• 5 May 1989Sergii Poletkin Metropolitan of Samara and Tolyattinsk, b. 1951
• 21 July 1989Vladimir Cantarean Metropolitan of Chișinău and Moldova, b. 1952
• 21 September 1992Benjamin Pushkar Former Metropolitan of Vladivostok and Primorye, b. 1938
• 31 March 1996Nikon Vasin Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1942
• 8 September 1998Joseph Makedonov Metropolitan of Ivanovo-Voznesenskii and Vichuga, b. 1964
• 12 September 1998Anatolii Botnari Archbishop of Cahul and Comrat, b. 1950
• 14 January 1999Alexander Ishchein Archbishop of Baku and Azerbaijan, 1952–2021
• 31 January 1999Joseph Balabanov Metropolitan of Ulan-Ude and Buryatia, b. 1954
• 10 August 1999Tikhon Nedosekin Bishop of Vidnoye, b. 1956
• 14 November 1999Daniel Nushiro Archbishop of Tokyo, Metropolitan of All Japan, 1938–2023
• 15 January 2000Serapheim Tsujie Archbishop of Tokyo, Metropolitan of All Japan, b. 1951
• 30 January 2000Evstafii Evdokimov Archbishop of Alexandrovsk and Yuriev-Polskii, b. 1951
• 6 February 2000Merkurii Ivanov Metropolitan of Rostov and Novocherkassk, b. 1964
• 10 August 2000Diomid Dzyuban Bishop of Anadyr and Chukotka, 1961–2021
• 19 May 2001Serapheim Melkonyan Metropolitan of Baltiysk and Svetlogorsk, b. 1961
• 2 September 2001Alexander Agrikov Metropolitan of Bryansk and Sevsk, b. 1953
• 11 November 2001Daniel Dorovskikh Metropolitan of Kurgan and Belozersk, b. 1960
• 14 January 2002Hilarion Alfeyev Metropolitan of Budapest and Hungary, b. 1966
• 20 January 2002Maksim Dmitriev Bishop of Yelets and Lebedyansk, b. 1961
• 31 March 2002Feognost Guzikov Metropolitan of Kashira, b. 1960
• 14 April 2002Irinarkh Grezin Bishop of Ramenskoye, 1951–2024
• 20 April 2002Feofilakt Moiseyev Former Bishop of Mytishchi, 1949–2023
• 21 April 2002Feodosii Vasnev Metropolitan of Tambov and Rasskazovo, b. 1961
• 2 February 2003George Danilov Metropolitan of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas, b. 1964

Sources

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