John Snychyov

Life

Born

9 October 1927

Monastic tonsure

7 June 1946

Ordained deacon

9 June 1946

Ordained priest

14 January 1948

Made archimandrite

25 April 1964

Consecrated bishop

12 December 1965

Made archbishop

9 September 1976

Made metropolitan

20 July 1990

Died

2 November 1995

Sees

1. 12 December 1965 – 20 March 1969

   Bishop of Syzran

   Vicar of Kuibyshev · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 20 March 1969 – 9 September 1976

   Bishop of Kuibyshev and Syzran

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 1972 – 1973

   Locum tenens of Cheboksary

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 1975

   Locum tenens of Ufa

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 9 September 1976 – 20 July 1990

   Archbishop of Kuibyshev and Syzran

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 20 July 1990 – 2 November 1995

   Metropolitan of Leningrad and Ladoga

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 12 December 1965 by:

• Pimen Izvekov Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1910–1990
• Manuel Lemeshevskii Metropolitan of Kuibyshev and Syzran, 1884–1968
• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• Anthony Bloom Metropolitan of Sourozh, 1914–2003
• Donat Shcheglov Archbishop of Kaluga and Borovsk, 1899–1979
• Filaret Denysenko Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus'-Ukraine, b. 1929
• Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003
• Jonathan Kopolovich Archbishop of Chișinău and Moldova, 1912–1990

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 9 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. John Snychyov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Ladoga consecrated 12 December 1965
2. Manuel Lemeshevskii Metropolitan of Kuibyshev and Syzran, 1884–1968 consecrated 23 September 1923
3. Tikhon Belavin Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1865–1925 consecrated 19 October 1897
4. Palladii Rayev-Pisarev Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1827–1898 consecrated 18 December 1866
5. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
6. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
7. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
8. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
9. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
10. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 3

• 30 January 1966Irinei Susemihl Metropolitan of Vienna and Austria, 1919–1999
• 14 August 1990Manuel Pavlov Metropolitan of Petrozavodsk and Karelia, 1950–2015
• 3 October 1993Simon Getya Metropolitan of Oryol and Bolkhov, b. 1949

Sources

Also in: Wikidata