Chrysostom Martishkin

Life

Born

3 May 1934

Ordained deacon

12 September 1964

Monastic tonsure

31 October 1966

Ordained priest

4 November 1968

Made archimandrite

2 August 1971

Consecrated bishop

23 April 1972

Made archbishop

2 September 1977

Made metropolitan

25 February 2000

Retired

24 December 2010

Died

6 January 2025

Sees

1. 23 April 1972 – 3 September 1974

   Bishop of Zaraisk

   Vicar of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 3 September 1974 – 2 September 1977

   Bishop of Kursk and Belgorod

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 2 September 1977 – 26 December 1984

   Archbishop of Kursk and Belgorod

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 26 December 1984 – 25 January 1990

   Archbishop of Irkutsk and Chita

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 25 January 1990 – 25 February 2000

   Archbishop of Vilnius and All Lithuania

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 25 February 2000 – 24 December 2010

   Metropolitan of Vilnius and All Lithuania

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 24 December 2010 – 6 January 2025

   Former Metropolitan of Vilnius and All Lithuania

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 23 April 1972 by:

• Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978
• Filaret Vakhromeyev Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk, 1935–2021
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 10 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Chrysostom Martishkin Metropolitan of Vilnius and All Lithuania consecrated 23 April 1972
2. Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978 consecrated 10 July 1960
3. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
4. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
5. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
6. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
7. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
8. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
9. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
10. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
11. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 8

• 3 September 1972Anatolii Kuznetsov Archbishop of Kerch, 1930–2024
• 18 October 1972Damaskin Bodryi Bishop of Mukachevo and Uzhhorod, 1937–1989
• 3 June 1973Victorin Belyayev Archbishop of Vilnius and Lithuania, 1903–1990
• 3 January 1975Job Tyvonyuk Metropolitan of Chelyabinsk and Zlatoust, 1938–2020
• 3 August 1975Anthony Zavgorodnii Archbishop of Stavropol and Baku, b. 1938
• 14 March 1976Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• 18 October 1978Serapheim Tikhonov Archbishop of Penza and Kuznetsy, 1935–2000
• 26 January 1992Innocent Vasiliev Metropolitan of Vilnius and Lithuania, b. 1947

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru