Nestor Sapsai

Life

Born

24 May 1931

Ordained deacon

27 September 1966

Ordained priest

28 September 1966

Monastic tonsure

2 January 1994

Made archimandrite

2 January 1994

Consecrated bishop

6 March 1994

Retired

1997

Died

5 November 2004

Sees

1. 6 March 1994 – 17 July 1997

   Bishop of Petropavl and Kamchatka

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 17 July 1997 – 5 November 2004

   Former Bishop of Petropavl and Kamchatka

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 6 March 1994 by:

• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Isidore Kirichenko Metropolitan of Ekaterinodar and Kuban, 1941–2020
• Gregory Chirkov Archbishop of Mozhaisk, 1942–2018
• Paisii Samchuk Archbishop of Oryol and Livny, 1930–2008
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 11 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Nestor Sapsai Bishop of Petropavl and Kamchatka consecrated 6 March 1994
2. Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935 consecrated 26 December 1965
3. Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978 consecrated 10 July 1960
4. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
5. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
6. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
7. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
8. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
9. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
10. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
11. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
12. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Sources

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