Serapheim Ivanov

Life

Born

13 August 1897

Ordained priest

1926

Monastic tonsure

1 August 1926

Made archimandrite

1935

Consecrated bishop

9 March 1946

Made archbishop

1959

Died

25 July 1987

Sees

1. 9 March 1946 – May 1946

   Bishop of Santiago and Chile

   ROCOR

2. May 1946 – October 1957

   Bishop of Holy Trinity

   Vicar of Eastern America · ROCOR

3. October 1957 – 1959

   Bishop of Chicago and Detroit

   ROCOR

4. 1959 – 1976

   Archbishop of Chicago and Detroit

   ROCOR

5. 1976 – 25 July 1987

   Archbishop of Chicago, Detroit and the Midwest

   ROCOR

Consecration

Consecrated 9 March 1946 by:

• Anastasii Gribanovskii Former Metropolitan of Chișinău and Hotin, 1873–1965
• Ieronim Chernov Archbishop of Detroit and Flint, 1878–1957

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 10 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Serapheim Ivanov Archbishop of Chicago, Detroit and the Midwest consecrated 9 March 1946
2. Ieronim Chernov Archbishop of Detroit and Flint, 1878–1957 consecrated 18 August 1935
3. Vitalii Maksimenko Archbishop of Eastern America and Jersey City, 1873–1960 consecrated 6 May 1934
4. Anthony Khrapovitsky Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1863–1936 consecrated 7 September 1897
5. Arsenii Bryantsev Archbishop of Kharkiv and Okhtyrka, 1839–1914 consecrated 17 May 1882
6. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
7. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
8. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
9. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
10. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
11. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 7

• 27 June 1948Nikon Rklitskii Archbishop of Washington and Florida, 1892–1976
• 12 July 1951James Toombs Primate of the Orthodox American Church, 1887–1970
• 25 May 1953Averky Taushev Archbishop of Syracuse and Holy Trinity, 1906–1976
• 22 December 1960Akakios Pappas Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1888–1963
• 16 July 1967Paul Pavlov Archbishop of Sydney, Australia and New Zealand, 1927–1995
• 12 July 1974Alipii Gamanovich Former Archbishop of Chicago, 1926–2019
• 10 December 1984Hilarion Kapral Metropolitan of New York and Eastern America, 1948–2022

Sources

Also in: Wikidata