Serapheim Protopopov

Life

Born

19 October 1894

Monastic tonsure

1 December 1917

Ordained priest

14 January 1918

Made archimandrite

1922

Consecrated bishop

22 January 1924

Made archbishop

30 September 1935

Died

8 August 1937

Sees

1. 22 January 1924 – 1927

   Bishop of Kolpino

   Vicar of Petrograd · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1927 – 1928

   Bishop of Kolpino

   Josephist Schism (Russia)

3. 1928

   Bishop of Kolpino

   Vicar of Petrograd · Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 1928

   Bishop of Aksai

   Vicar of the Don · Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 1928

   Bishop of Syzran

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 1928

   Bishop of Sterlitamak

   Vicar of Ufa · Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 1928 – 1930

   Bishop of Baku

   Patriarchate of Moscow

8. 1930 – 1934

   Bishop of Rybinsk

   Vicar of Yaroslavl · Patriarchate of Moscow

9. 1934

   Bishop of Chelyabinsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

10. 1934 – 30 September 1935

    Bishop of Velikii Lutsk

    Patriarchate of Moscow

11. 1935

    Locum tenens of Yelets and Lipetsk

    Patriarchate of Moscow

12. 30 September 1935 – 1935

    Archbishop of Oryol

    Patriarchate of Moscow

13. 1935 – 8 August 1937

    Archbishop of Yelets and Zadonsk

    Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 22 January 1924 by:

• Benedict Plotnikov Archbishop of Kazan and Sviyazhsk, 1872–1937
• Trofim Yakobchuk Bishop of Izhevsk, 1868–1937

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. Serapheim Protopopov Archbishop of Yelets and Zadonsk consecrated 22 January 1924
2. Benedict Plotnikov Archbishop of Kazan and Sviyazhsk, 1872–1937 consecrated 28 August 1920
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 1

• 19 November 1931Tarasii Livanov Bishop of Barnaul, b. 1877

Sources

Also in: Wikidata