Benedict Polyakov

Life

Born

15 July 1884

Ordained deacon

1905

Ordained priest

1905

Monastic tonsure

15 February 1947

Made archimandrite

17 February 1947

Consecrated bishop

18 February 1947

Made archbishop

25 February 1953

Retired

8 September 1958

Died

6 December 1963

Sees

1. 18 February 1947 – 3 June 1948

   Bishop of Chișinău and Moldova

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 3 June 1948 – 25 February 1953

   Bishop of Ivanovo and Chișinău

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 25 February 1953 – 23 July 1956

   Archbishop of Ivanovo and Chișinău

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 23 July 1956 – 8 September 1958

   Archbishop of Zhytomyr and Ovruch

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 8 September 1958 – 6 December 1963

   Former Archbishop of Zhytomyr and Ovruch

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 18 February 1947 by:

• Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 9 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Benedict Polyakov Archbishop of Zhytomyr and Ovruch consecrated 18 February 1947
2. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
3. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
4. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
5. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
6. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
7. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
8. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
9. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
10. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Sources

• wikidata.org

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