Anthony Melnikov

Life

Born

19 February 1924

Monastic tonsure

July 1950

Ordained deacon

18 July 1950

Ordained priest

22 July 1950

Made archimandrite

1956

Consecrated bishop

31 May 1964

Made archbishop

8 October 1965

Made metropolitan

8 September 1975

Died

29 May 1986

Sees

1. 31 May 1964 – 25 May 1965

   Bishop of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 25 May 1965 – 8 October 1965

   Bishop of Minsk and Belarus

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 8 October 1965 – 8 September 1975

   Archbishop of Minsk and Belarus

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 8 September 1975 – 29 September 1978

   Metropolitan of Minsk and Belarus

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 29 September 1978 – 29 May 1986

   Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 31 May 1964 by:

• Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970
• Pimen Izvekov Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1910–1990
• Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978
• Boris Vik Metropolitan of Kherson and Odessa, 1906–1965
• Nektarii Grigoriev Metropolitan of Chișinău and Moldova, 1902–1969
• Sergii Petrov Metropolitan of Odessa and Kherson, 1924–1990
• Onisifor Ponomarev Archbishop of Kaluga and Borovsk, 1881–1966

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. Anthony Melnikov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod consecrated 31 May 1964
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 9

• 24 October 1965Filaret Vakhromeyev Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk, 1935–2021
• 28 November 1965Jonathan Kopolovich Archbishop of Chișinău and Moldova, 1912–1990
• 30 January 1966Irinei Susemihl Metropolitan of Vienna and Austria, 1919–1999
• 9 July 1966Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014
• 6 November 1966Michael Mudyugin Archbishop of Vologda and Velikii Ustyug, 1912–2000
• 19 October 1971Serapheim Sigrist Bishop of Sendai, b. 1941
• 26 March 1972Maksim Krokha Archbishop of Mahilioŭ and Mstsislaw, 1928–2002
• 3 August 1975Anthony Zavgorodnii Archbishop of Stavropol and Baku, b. 1938
• 25 July 1976Valentine Mishchuk Metropolitan of Orenburg and Buzuluk, b. 1940

Sources

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