Elpidifor Benediktov

Life

Ordained deacon

1 December 1829

Ordained priest

6 December 1829

Made archimandrite

22 May 1832

Monastic tonsure

28 November 1832

Consecrated bishop

2 February 1842

Made archbishop

7 January 1860

Retired

25 May 1860

Died

31 May 1860

Sees

1. 2 February 1842 – 1848

   Bishop of Ostrogozhsk

   Vicar of Voronezh · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1848

   Bishop of Kharkiv

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 1848 – 1851

   Bishop of Podilsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 1851 – 7 January 1860

   Bishop of Vyatka

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 7 January 1860 – 25 May 1860

   Archbishop of Taurida

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 25 May 1860 – 31 May 1860

   Former Archbishop of Taurida

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 2 February 1842 by:

• Serapheim Glagolevskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg, Novgorod, Estlandia and Finland, 1757–1843

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 5 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Elpidifor Benediktov Archbishop of Taurida consecrated 2 February 1842
2. Serapheim Glagolevskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg, Novgorod, Estlandia and Finland, 1757–1843 consecrated 25 December 1799
3. Platon Levshin Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1737–1812 consecrated 10 October 1770
4. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
5. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
6. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Sources

• wikidata.org

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