Feodosii Bilchenko

Life

Born

24 December 1943

Monastic tonsure

4 April 1977

Ordained deacon

19 May 1977

Ordained priest

6 November 1977

Made archimandrite

1993

Elected bishop

17 July 1997

Consecrated bishop

10 August 1997

Made archbishop

24 February 2006

Retired

30 August 2019

Sees

1. 10 August 1997 – 24 February 2006

   Bishop of Polatsk and Hlybokaye

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 24 February 2006 – 30 August 2019

   Archbishop of Polatsk and Hlybokaye

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 30 August 2019 – present

   Former Archbishop of Polatsk and Hlybokaye

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 10 August 1997 by:

• Filaret Vakhromeyev Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk, 1935–2021

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. Feodosii Bilchenko Archbishop of Polatsk and Hlybokaye consecrated 10 August 1997
2. Filaret Vakhromeyev Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk, 1935–2021 consecrated 24 October 1965
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 1

• 30 January 2005Stephen Neshcheret Archbishop of Homieĺ and Zhlobin, b. 1966

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata