Mitrofan Simashkevich

Life

Born

23 November 1845

Ordained priest

25 February 1877

Monastic tonsure

5 August 1904

Made archimandrite

6 August 1904

Consecrated bishop

29 January 1906

Made archbishop

May 1914

Made metropolitan

1922

Died

28 July 1933

Sees

1. 29 January 1906 – 1907

   Bishop of Cheboksary

   Vicar of Kazan · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1907 – May 1914

   Bishop of Penza and Saransk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. May 1914 – 1915

   Archbishop of Penza and Saransk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 1915 – 1922

   Archbishop of Novocherkassk and the Don

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 1922 – 1926

   Metropolitan of Novocherkassk and the Don

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 1926 – 28 July 1933

   Metropolitan of Novocherkassk and the Don

   Grigorianist Schism (Russia)

Consecration

Consecrated 29 January 1906 by:

• Dimitrii Kovalnitskii Archbishop of Kherson and Odessa, 1839–1913
• Gurii Buratovskii Bishop of Simbirsk and Syzran, 1845–1907
• Nazarii Kirillov Metropolitan of Kursk and Oboyan, 1850–1928
• Aleksii Dorodnitsyn Archbishop of Vladimir and Suzdal, 1859–1919

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. Mitrofan Simashkevich Metropolitan of Novocherkassk and the Don consecrated 29 January 1906
2. Aleksii Dorodnitsyn Archbishop of Vladimir and Suzdal, 1859–1919 consecrated 30 April 1904
3. Arsenii Bryantsev Archbishop of Kharkiv and Okhtyrka, 1839–1914 consecrated 17 May 1882
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

• 4 October 1907Andrew Ukhtomskii Bishop, 1872–1937