Serapheim Sharapov

Life

Born

12 February 1878

Monastic tonsure

6 April 1946

Made archimandrite

7 April 1946

Consecrated bishop

14 April 1946

Died

22 August 1959

Sees

1. 14 April 1946 – 30 October 1947

   Bishop of Rostov and Taganrog

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 30 October 1947 – 15 November 1952

   Bishop of Ulyanovsk and Melekess

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 15 November 1952 – 22 August 1959

   Bishop of Poltava and Kremenchuk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 14 April 1946 by:

• Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970
• Maksim Bachinskii Bishop of Velikii Lutsk and Toropets, 1897–1953
• Makarii Dayev Archbishop of Mozhaisk, 1888–1960

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 Sharapov Bishop of Poltava and Kremenchuk consecrated 14 April 1946
2. Maksim Bachinskii Bishop of Velikii Lutsk and Toropets, 1897–1953 consecrated 13 May 1944
3. Sergii Stragorodskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1867–1944 consecrated 25 February 1901
4. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
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 3

• 20 April 1958Flavian Dmitriyuk Archbishop of Gorky and Arzamas, 1895–1977
• 22 June 1958Feodosii Pogorskii Archbishop of Ufa and Sterlitamak, 1909–1975
• 12 March 1959Nikon Lysenko Former Bishop of Voronezh and Lipetsk, 1890–1972

Sources

Also in: Wikidata