Alexander Kalinin

Life

Monastic tonsure

January 1987

Ordained priest

December 1987

Made archimandrite

September 1992

Consecrated bishop

February 1996

Became patriarch

2002

Sees

1. February 1996 – date unknown

   Bishop of Bryansk and Zlynkov

   Old Orthodox Church

2. date unknown – 2002

   Archbishop of Novozybkov, Moscow and All Rus'

   Old Orthodox Church

3. 2002 – present

   Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus'

   Old Orthodox Church

Consecration

Consecrated February 1996 by:

• Aristarkh Kalinin Archbishop of Novozybkov, Moscow and All Rus', 1907–2000
• Barnabas Edigarev Former Bishop of the Urals, cons. 1996

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 Stephen Rastorguyev; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Alexander Kalinin Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' consecrated February 1996
2. Aristarkh Kalinin Archbishop of Novozybkov, Moscow and All Rus', 1907–2000 consecrated 5 March 1995
3. Gennadii Antonov Archbishop of Novozybkov, Moscow and All Rus', 1903–1996 consecrated 23 September 1979
4. Varsonofii Ovsyannikov Bishop of Kursk, cons. 1969 consecrated 27 April 1969
5. Jeremiah Matvievich Archbishop of All Russia, 1883–1969 consecrated 15 March 1957
6. Epifanii Abramov Archbishop of Kuibyshev, Moscow and All Rus', d. 1965 consecrated 1950
7. John Kalinin Archbishop of Moscow and All Rus', Primate of the Old Orthodox Church, 1868–1956 consecrated 21 September 1939
8. Michael Kochetov Bishop/Primate of the Old Orthodox Church, 1860–1944 consecrated 6 July 1936
9. Stephen Rastorguyev Archbishop of Moscow and All Rus', 1861–1937 consecrated after 1917

Bishops he consecrated 1

• October 2005Savin Tikhov Bishop of Samara, b. 1945