Dimitrii Sperovskii

Life

Born

18 April 1865

Monastic tonsure

19 September 1893

Ordained deacon

1 October 1893

Ordained priest

3 October 1893

Made archimandrite

19 March 1895

Consecrated bishop

2 February 1903

Made archbishop

1919/1920

Died

5 May 1923

Sees

1. 2 February 1903 – 1904

   Bishop of Kremenets

   Vicar of Volyn · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1904 – 1907

   Bishop of Novomyrhorod

   Vicar of Kherson · Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 1907 – 1911

   Bishop of Sukhumi

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 1911 – 1917

   Bishop of Ryazan and Zaraisk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 1917 – 1919/1920

   Former Bishop of Ryazan and Zaraisk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 1919/1920 – 5 May 1923

   Archbishop of Staraya Russa

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 2 February 1903 by:

• Anthony Khrapovitsky Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1863–1936
• Paisii Vinogradov Bishop of Tashkent and Türkıstan, 1837–1908
• Agapit Vishnevskii Archbishop of Ekaterinoslav and Mariupol, 1867–1923
• Arsenii Timofeyev/Alikhan-bek-murza Former Bishop of Omsk and Pavlodar, 1865–1917
• Evlogii Georgievskii Metropolitan of Western Europe, Patriarchal Exarch, 1868–1946

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 8 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Dimitrii Sperovskii Archbishop of Staraya Russa consecrated 2 February 1903
2. Anthony Khrapovitsky Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1863–1936 consecrated 7 September 1897
3. Arsenii Bryantsev Archbishop of Kharkiv and Okhtyrka, 1839–1914 consecrated 17 May 1882
4. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
5. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
6. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
7. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
8. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
9. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Sources

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