Saint Tikhon Nikanorov

Life

Born

30 January 1855

Monastic tonsure

15 June 1884

Ordained deacon

8 July 1884

Ordained priest

10 July 1884

Made archimandrite

25 December 1890

Consecrated bishop

2 February 1892

Made archbishop

13 May 1913

Died

27 February 1920

Canonized

date unknown

Sees

1. 2 February 1892 – 1899

   Bishop of Mozhaisk

   Vicar of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1899 – 1902

   Bishop of Polatsk and Vitebsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 1902 – 1912

   Bishop of Penza and Saransk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 1912 – 13 May 1913

   Bishop of Kaluga and Borovsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 13 May 1913 – 27 February 1920

   Archbishop of Voronezh and Zadonsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 2 February 1892 by:

• Leontii Lebedinskii Metropolitan of Moscow, 1822–1893
• Nestor Metaniev Bishop of Dmitrov, 1830–1910
• Alexander Svetlakov Bishop of Kaluga and Borovsk, 1839–1895
• Christopher Smirnov Bishop of Menzelinsk, b. 1842

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 8 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Tikhon Nikanorov Archbishop of Voronezh and Zadonsk consecrated 2 February 1892
2. Christopher Smirnov Bishop of Menzelinsk, b. 1842 consecrated 25 May 1887
3. Ioannikii Rudnev Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1826–1900 consecrated 12 June 1861
4. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
5. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
6. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
7. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
8. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
9. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 1

• 28 August 1911Barnabas Nakropin Archbishop of Tobolsk and Siberia, 1859–1924

Sources

Also in: Wikidata