Pimen Izvekov

Life

Born

23 July 1910

Monastic tonsure

4 October 1927

Ordained deacon

16 July 1930

Ordained priest

25 January 1931

Made archimandrite

9 April 1950

Consecrated bishop

17 November 1957

Made archbishop

23 November 1960

Made metropolitan

14 November 1961

Became patriarch

2 June 1971

Died

3 May 1990

Sees

1. 17 November 1957 – 26 December 1957

   Bishop of Balta

   Vicar of Odessa · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 26 December 1957 – 23 November 1960

   Bishop of Dmitrov

   Vicar of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 1959

   Locum tenens of Kostroma

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 23 November 1960 – 16 March 1961

   Archbishop of Dmitrov

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 16 March 1961 – 14 November 1961

   Archbishop of Tula and Belyov

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 14 November 1961 – 9 October 1963

   Metropolitan of Leningrad and Ladoga

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 9 October 1963 – 2 June 1971

   Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna

   Patriarchate of Moscow

8. 2 June 1971 – 3 May 1990

   Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus'

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 17 November 1957 by:

• Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970
• Boris Vik Metropolitan of Kherson and Odessa, 1906–1965
• Nektarii Grigoriev Metropolitan of Chișinău and Moldova, 1902–1969
• Innocent Leoferov Archbishop of Kalinin and Kashin, 1890–1971
• Nestor Tugai Bishop of Chernihiv and Nizhyn, 1900–1969

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. Pimen Izvekov Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' consecrated 17 November 1957
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

• 20 April 1958Flavian Dmitriyuk Archbishop of Gorky and Arzamas, 1895–1977
• 28 December 1958John Vendland Metropolitan of Yaroslavl, 1909–1989
• 12 March 1959Nikon Lysenko Former Bishop of Voronezh and Lipetsk, 1890–1972
• 10 May 1959Innocent Sokal Former Bishop of Smolensk and Dorogobuzh, 1883–1965
• 11 June 1959Leonid Polyakov Metropolitan of Riga and Latvia, 1913–1990
• 13 March 1960Sergii Petrov Metropolitan of Odessa and Kherson, 1924–1990
• 3 April 1960Nicholas Feodosiev Bishop of Cheboksary and Chuvash, 1893–1972
• 10 July 1960Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978
• 14 January 1962Leontii Gudimov Metropolitan of Donetsk and Slovyansk, 1928–1992
• 4 February 1962Filaret Denysenko Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus'-Ukraine, b. 1929
• 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
• 22 November 1962John Ivanov Bishop of Kirov and Sloboda, 1912–1966
• 2 December 1962Feodosii Protsyuk Metropolitan of Omsk and Tara, 1927–2016
• 30 December 1962Vladimir Kotlyarov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1929–2022
• 9 November 1963Bogolep Antsukh Archbishop of Kirovohrad and Mykolaiv, 1911–1978
• 31 May 1964Anthony Melnikov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1924–1986
• 5 July 1964Jonah Zyryanov Bishop of Stavropol and Baku, 1924–1975
• 10 January 1965Pimen Khmelevskii Archbishop of Saratov and Volsk, 1923–1993
• 12 February 1965Anthony Vakarik Metropolitan of Chernihiv and Nizhyn, 1926–2003
• 31 October 1965Nicholas Yurik Metropolitan of Lviv and Ternopil, 1910–1984
• 28 November 1965Jonathan Kopolovich Archbishop of Chișinău and Moldova, 1912–1990
• 12 December 1965John Snychyov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Ladoga, 1927–1995
• 30 January 1966Irinei Susemihl Metropolitan of Vienna and Austria, 1919–1999
• 9 July 1966Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014
• 23 October 1966Clement Perestyuk Archbishop of Sverdlovsk and Kurgan, 1904–1986
• 30 October 1966Joasaph Ovsyannikov Archbishop of Rostov and Novocherkassk, 1904–1984
• 4 June 1967Feodosii Dikun Metropolitan of Poltava and Kremenchuk, 1926–2001
• 18 July 1970Platon Lobankov Bishop of Voronezh and Lipetsk, 1927–1975
• 19 December 1971Serapheim Rodionov Archbishop of Zurich, 1905–1997
• 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
• 27 July 1975Irinei Serednii Metropolitan of Dnipropetrovsk and Pavlohrad, b. 1939
• 19 August 1975Panteleimon Mitryukovskii Bishop of Kazan and Mari El, 1912–1993
• 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 1978Serapheim Tikhonov Archbishop of Penza and Kuznetsy, 1935–2000
• 25 November 1979Ilian Vostryakov Bishop of Serpukhov, b. 1945
• 30 November 1979Nikanor Yukhimyuk Archbishop of Kamyanets-Podilskyi, 1935–1997
• 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
• 13 September 1987Gregory Chirkov Archbishop of Mozhaisk, 1942–2018
• 1 December 1988Aleksii Kutepov Metropolitan of Tula and Yefremov, b. 1953
• 5 May 1989Sergii Poletkin Metropolitan of Samara and Tolyattinsk, b. 1951

Sources

• patriarchia.ru
• ru.wikipedia.org

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata