Vitalii Bazhanov

Life

Born

1846

Ordained priest

10 April 1888

Monastic tonsure

5 April 1904

Consecrated bishop

9 April 1904

Died

27 March 1906

Sees

1. 9 April 1904 – 27 March 1906

   Bishop of Petrograd and Tver

   Russian Orthodox Old Believer Church (Belaya Krinitsa Hierarchy)

Consecration

Consecrated 9 April 1904 by:

• John Kartushin Archbishop of Moscow and All Rus', 1837–1915
• Innocent Usov Metropolitan of Belaya Krinitsa, b. 1870

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 7 generations back to Gregory VI Phourtouniades; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Vitalii Bazhanov Bishop of Petrograd and Tver consecrated 9 April 1904
2. Innocent Usov Metropolitan of Belaya Krinitsa, b. 1870 consecrated 27 April 1903
3. Joasaph Zelenkin Bishop of Kazan and Vyatka, 1838–1912 consecrated 23 March 1893
4. Cyril Mukhin Bishop of Nizhny Novgorod, 1821–1903 consecrated 24 November 1876
5. Anthony Shutov Archbishop of Moscow and All Rus', 1800–1881 consecrated 3 February 1853
6. Cyril Timofeyev Archbishop of Belaya Krinitsa and Metropolitan of All Old Orthodox Christians, 1786–1873 consecrated 6 January 1847
7. Ambrose Pappa-Georgopoli Metropolitan of Belaya Krinitsa, 1791–1863 consecrated 1835
8. Gregory VI Phourtouniades Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1798–1881 consecrated 24 October 1825