Cornelius Jakobs

Life

Born

19 June 1924

Ordained deacon

19 August 1945

Ordained priest

5 February 1948

Elected bishop

20 July 1990

Monastic tonsure

21 August 1990

Made archimandrite

6 September 1990

Consecrated bishop

15 September 1990

Made archbishop

25 February 1995

Made metropolitan

6 November 2000

Died

19 April 2018

Sees

1. 15 September 1990 – 11 August 1992

   Bishop of Tallinn

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 11 August 1992 – 26 April 1993

   Bishop of Tallinn and Estonia

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 26 April 1993 – 25 February 1995

   Bishop of Tallinn and All Estonia

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 25 February 1995 – 6 November 2000

   Archbishop of Tallinn and All Estonia

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 6 November 2000 – 19 April 2018

   Metropolitan of Tallinn and All Estonia

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 15 September 1990 by:

• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• Tihon Tajakka Metropolitan of Helsinki, 1928–2000
• Eugene Zhdan Archbishop of Tambov and Michurinsk, 1942–2002
• Victor Pyankov Bishop of Podilsk, b. 1944
• Leo Tserpitskii Metropolitan of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, b. 1946

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. Cornelius Jakobs Metropolitan of Tallinn and All Estonia consecrated 15 September 1990
2. Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008 consecrated 3 September 1961
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

Bishops he consecrated 2

• 3 October 1993Simon Getya Metropolitan of Oryol and Bolkhov, b. 1949
• 21 July 2009Lazar Gurkin Bishop of Narva and Prichudye, b. 1969

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata