Valentine Mishchuk

Life

Born

14 October 1940

Monastic tonsure

30 March 1969

Ordained deacon

20 April 1969

Ordained priest

18 July 1969

Made archimandrite

20 July 1976

Consecrated bishop

25 July 1976

Made archbishop

30 December 1988

Made metropolitan

25 February 2004

Retired

22 October 2015

Sees

1. 25 July 1976 – 16 November 1979

   Bishop of Ufa and Sterlitamak

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 16 November 1979 – 26 April 1985

   Bishop of Zvenigorod

   Vicar of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 26 April 1985 – 12 May 1987

   Bishop of Tambov and Michurinsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 12 May 1987 – 30 December 1988

   Bishop of Vladimir and Suzdal

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 30 December 1988 – 27 October 1990

   Archbishop of Vladimir and Suzdal

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 27 October 1990 – 18 February 1992

   Archbishop of Korsun

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 18 February 1992 – 26 February 1994

   Archbishop of Hrodna and Vaŭkavysk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

8. 26 February 1994 – 17 July 1995

   Archbishop of Baku

   Vicar of Stavropol · Patriarchate of Moscow

9. 17 July 1995 – 19 July 1999

   Former Archbishop of Baku

   Patriarchate of Moscow

10. 19 July 1999 – 25 February 2004

    Archbishop of Orenburg and Buzuluk

    Patriarchate of Moscow

11. 25 February 2004 – 22 October 2015

    Metropolitan of Orenburg and Buzuluk

    Patriarchate of Moscow

12. October 2011 – March 2012

    Locum tenens of Orenburg and Buzuluk

    Patriarchate of Moscow

13. 22 October 2015 – present

    Former Metropolitan of Orenburg and Buzuluk

    Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 25 July 1976 by:

• Pimen Izvekov Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1910–1990
• Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978
• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Anthony Melnikov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1924–1986
• Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003
• Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 10 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Valentine Mishchuk Metropolitan of Orenburg and Buzuluk consecrated 25 July 1976
2. Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978 consecrated 10 July 1960
3. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
4. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
5. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
6. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
7. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
8. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
9. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
10. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
11. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 26

• 7 August 1988Nikandr Kovalenko Bishop of Zvenigorod, 1954–2023
• 1 December 1988Aleksii Kutepov Metropolitan of Tula and Yefremov, b. 1953
• 4 December 1988Victor Oleinik Metropolitan of Tver and Kashin, b. 1940
• 11 December 1988Anastasii Metkin Former Metropolitan of Simbirsk and Novospasskoye, b. 1944
• 22 April 1989Anthony Cheremisov Archbishop of Oryol and Bolkhov, 1939–2026
• 23 April 1989George Gryaznov Archbishop of Lyudinovo, 1934–2011
• 5 May 1989Sergii Poletkin Metropolitan of Samara and Tolyattinsk, b. 1951
• 23 July 1989Dimitrii Drozdov Archbishop of Vitebsk and Orsha, b. 1953
• 27 September 1989Alexander Mogilyov Metropolitan of Astana and Kazakhstan, b. 1957
• 11 November 1990Evlogii Smirnov Metropolitan of Vladimir and Suzdal, 1937–2020
• 26 January 1992Innocent Vasiliev Metropolitan of Vilnius and Lithuania, b. 1947
• 24 July 1992Peter Karpusyuk Bishop of Dyatlava, 1959–2020
• 26 March 1994Nektarii Korobov Bishop of Saratov and Volsk, 1942–1994
• 16 April 1994Eugene Reshetnikov Archbishop of Vereya, b. 1957
• 19 August 1995Aleksii Frolov Archbishop of Kostroma and Halych, 1947–2013
• 3 September 1995Mark Tuzhikov Metropolitan of Vyatka and Sloboda, b. 1961
• 12 September 1995Savva Volkov Archbishop of Tiraspol and Dubăsari, b. 1958
• 14 January 1999Alexander Ishchein Archbishop of Baku and Azerbaijan, 1952–2021
• 4 June 2007Nikodim Horenko Metropolitan of Zhytomyr, b. 1972
• 1 August 2010Iliya Bykov Bishop of Balakhna, b. 1954
• 19 June 2011Roman Lukin Archbishop of Yakutsk and Lensk, b. 1968
• 22 November 2011Irinei Tafunya Bishop of Orsk and Gai, b. 1971
• 25 March 2012Aleksii Antipov Bishop of Buzuluk and Sorochinsk, b. 1956
• 21 May 2015Sergii Zyatkov Bishop of Novorossiisk and Gelendzhik, b. 1967
• 1 August 2016Eugene Kulberg Metropolitan of Ekaterinburg and Verkhoturye, b. 1972
• 20 November 2017Ignatii Suranov Bishop of Cherepovets and Belozersk, b. 1978

Sources

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