Visarion Ljubiša

Life

Born

14 January 1843

Monastic tonsure

1844

Ordained deacon

1844

Ordained priest

1844

Made archimandrite

1870

Consecrated bishop

8 September 1878

Made metropolitan

6 December 1882

Died

14 April 1884

Sees

1. 8 September 1878 – 6 December 1882

   Bishop of Zahumlje and Raška

   Church of Montenegro

2. 6 December 1882 – 14 April 1884

   Archbishop of Cetinje and Metropolitan of Montenegro

   Church of Montenegro

Consecration

Consecrated 8 September 1878 by:

• Hilarion Roganović Archbishop of Cetinje and Metropolitan of Montenegro, 1828–1882
• Gerasim Petranović Bishop of Boka Kotorska, 1820–1906

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 7 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Visarion Ljubiša Archbishop of Cetinje and Metropolitan of Montenegro consecrated 8 September 1878
2. Hilarion Roganović Archbishop of Cetinje and Metropolitan of Montenegro, 1828–1882 consecrated 23 May 1863
3. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
4. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
5. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
6. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
7. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
8. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735