Saint Afanasii Sakharov

Life

Born

2 July 1887

Monastic tonsure

12 October 1912

Ordained deacon

14 October 1912

Ordained priest

17 October 1912

Made archimandrite

20 January 1920

Consecrated bishop

17 June 1921

Died

28 October 1962

Canonized

date unknown

Sees

1. 17 June 1921 – 28 October 1962

   Bishop of Kovrov

   Vicar of Vladimir · Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 17 June 1921 by:

• Sergii Stragorodskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1867–1944
• Evdokim Meshcherskii Metropolitan of Odessa, 1869–1935
• Barnabas Belyayev Former Bishop of Pechory (Petseri), 1887–1963

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 Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Afanasii Sakharov Bishop of Kovrov consecrated 17 June 1921
2. Evdokim Meshcherskii Metropolitan of Odessa, 1869–1935 consecrated 4 January 1904
3. Vladimir Bogoyavlenskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1848–1918 consecrated 13 June 1888
4. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
5. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
6. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
7. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
8. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
9. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 1

• 12 March 1959Nikon Lysenko Former Bishop of Voronezh and Lipetsk, 1890–1972

Sources

Also in: Wikidata