Pitirim Sviridov

Life

Born

21 December 1887

Ordained deacon

1911

Ordained priest

1915

Monastic tonsure

1941

Consecrated bishop

25 December 1941

Made archbishop

February 1945

Made metropolitan

February 1955

Died

10 August 1963

Sees

1. 25 December 1941 – 10 January 1942

   Bishop of Kuibyshev

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 10 January 1942 – 14 July 1943

   Bishop of Kaluga

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 14 July 1943 – 1944

   Bishop of Kursk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 1944 – February 1945

   Bishop of Kursk and Belgorod

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. February 1945 – 13 January 1947

   Archbishop of Kursk and Belgorod

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 13 January 1947 – February 1955

   Archbishop of Minsk and Belarus

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. February 1955 – 21 April 1959

   Metropolitan of Minsk and Belarus

   Patriarchate of Moscow

8. 21 April 1959 – 19 September 1960

   Metropolitan of Leningrad and Ladoga

   Patriarchate of Moscow

9. 19 September 1960 – 10 August 1963

   Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 25 December 1941 by:

• Nicholas Yarushevich Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna, 1892–1961
• Andrew Komarov Archbishop of Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhya, 1879–1955
• Sergii Grishin Archbishop of Gorky and Arzamas, 1889–1943

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. Pitirim Sviridov Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna consecrated 25 December 1941
2. Andrew Komarov Archbishop of Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhya, 1879–1955 consecrated 13 January 1924
3. Tikhon Belavin Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1865–1925 consecrated 19 October 1897
4. Palladii Rayev-Pisarev Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1827–1898 consecrated 18 December 1866
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

• 11 March 1923Jonah Orlov Archbishop of Voronezh and Ostrogozhsk, 1865–1945
• 10 August 1943Elevferii Vorontsov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Ladoga, 1892–1959
• 25 February 1948Andrew Sukhenko Former Archbishop of Omsk and Tyumen, 1900–1973
• 5 July 1953Mitrofan Gutovskii Bishop of Kuibyshev and Syzran, 1897–1959
• 17 December 1953Nicholas Eryomin Metropolitan of Korsun, 1892–1985
• 10 August 1956Leontii Bondar Metropolitan of Orenburg and Buzuluk, 1913–1999
• 26 March 1961Cassian Yaroslavskii Former Archbishop of Kostroma and Halych, 1899–1990
• 6 August 1961Cyprian Zyornov Archbishop of Berlin and Central Europe, 1911–1987
• 10 September 1961Nicholas Kutepov Metropolitan of Gorky and Arzamas, 1924–2001

Sources

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