George Gryaznov

Life

Born

26 January 1934

Ordained deacon

26 November 1968

Ordained priest

28 August 1969

Monastic tonsure

2 April 1972

Made archimandrite

1978

Consecrated bishop

23 April 1989

Made archbishop

25 February 2005

Died

1 April 2011

Sees

1. 23 April 1989 – 27 December 1996

   Bishop of Chelyabinsk and Zlatoust

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 27 December 1996 – 25 February 2005

   Bishop of Lyudinovo

   Vicar of Kaluga · Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 25 February 2005 – 1 April 2011

   Archbishop of Lyudinovo

   Vicar of Kaluga · Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 23 April 1989 by:

• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003
• Maksim Krokha Archbishop of Mahilioŭ and Mstsislaw, 1928–2002
• Melkhisedek Lebedev Archbishop of Bryansk and Sevsk, 1927–2016
• Valentine Mishchuk Metropolitan of Orenburg and Buzuluk, b. 1940
• Aleksii Kutepov Metropolitan of Tula and Yefremov, b. 1953
• Gregory Chirkov Archbishop of Mozhaisk, 1942–2018
• Anthony Cheremisov Archbishop of Oryol and Bolkhov, 1939–2026

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. George Gryaznov Archbishop of Lyudinovo consecrated 23 April 1989
2. Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003 consecrated 23 May 1963
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 1

• 16 April 1994Eugene Reshetnikov Archbishop of Vereya, b. 1957

Sources

Also in: Wikidata