Nikon Fomichyov

Life

Born

9 May 1910

Ordained deacon

17 June 1945

Ordained priest

12 May 1946

Monastic tonsure

11 August 1962

Made archimandrite

14 August 1962

Consecrated bishop

26 August 1962

Made archbishop

2 September 1977

Retired

1984

Died

13 April 1995

Sees

1. 26 August 1962 – 1962

   Bishop of Vyborg

   Vicar of Leningrad · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1962 – 1963

   Bishop of Luga

   Vicar of Leningrad · Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 1963 – 1966

   Bishop of Riga and Latvia

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 1966 – 1977

   Bishop of Arkhangelsk and Kholmogory

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 1977 – 2 September 1977

   Bishop of Kaluga and Borovsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 2 September 1977 – 1982

   Archbishop of Kaluga and Borovsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 1982 – 1984

   Archbishop of Perm and Solikamsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

8. 1984 – 13 April 1995

   Former Archbishop of Perm and Solikamsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 26 August 1962 by:

• Pimen Izvekov Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1910–1990
• Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978
• Leonid Polyakov Metropolitan of Riga and Latvia, 1913–1990
• Cyprian Zyornov Archbishop of Berlin and Central Europe, 1911–1987
• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 10 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Nikon Fomichyov Archbishop of Perm and Solikamsk consecrated 26 August 1962
2. Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978 consecrated 10 July 1960
3. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
4. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
5. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
6. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
7. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
8. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
9. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
10. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
11. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 7

• 29 August 1962Mefodii Menzak Archbishop of Omsk and Tyumen, 1914–1974
• 22 November 1962John Ivanov Bishop of Kirov and Sloboda, 1912–1966
• 10 December 1967Nicholas Sayama Archbishop of Ramenskoye, 1914–2008
• 12 September 1968Peter L'Huiller Archbishop of New York and New Jersey, 1926–2007
• 6 December 1968Herman Timofeyev Metropolitan of Volgograd, b. 1937
• 18 October 1977Ambrose Shchurov Former Archbishop of Ivanovo-Voznesensk and Kineshma, 1930–2016
• 5 October 1989Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955

Sources

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