Ambrose Shchurov

Life

Born

28 March 1930

Ordained deacon

23 June 1952

Ordained priest

29 June 1952

Monastic tonsure

17 December 1954

Made archimandrite

1966

Consecrated bishop

18 October 1977

Made archbishop

25 February 1991

Retired

19 July 2006

Died

8 November 2016

Sees

1. 18 October 1977 – 25 February 1991

   Bishop of Ivanovo and Kineshma

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 25 February 1991 – 13 March 2002

   Archbishop of Ivanovo and Kineshma

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 13 March 2002 – 19 July 2006

   Archbishop of Ivanovo-Voznesensk and Kineshma

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 19 July 2006 – 8 November 2016

   Former Archbishop of Ivanovo-Voznesensk and Kineshma

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 18 October 1977 by:

• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• Nikon Fomichyov Archbishop of Perm and Solikamsk, 1910–1995
• Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003
• Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014
• Anatolii Kuznetsov Archbishop of Kerch, 1930–2024
• Simon Novikov Metropolitan of Ryazan and Kasimov, 1928–2006

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. Ambrose Shchurov Former Archbishop of Ivanovo-Voznesensk and Kineshma consecrated 18 October 1977
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

• 29 July 1991Ierofei Sobolev Bishop of Balakhna, 1936–2001

Sources

Also in: Wikidata