Irinei Bekish

Life

Born

2 October 1892

Ordained priest

1 August 1916

Monastic tonsure

28 May 1953

Made archimandrite

28 May 1953

Consecrated bishop

7 June 1953

Made archbishop

1957

Retired

25 October 1977

Died

18 March 1981

Sees

1. 7 June 1953 – 9 May 1957

   Bishop of Tokyo

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 9 May 1957 – 14 June 1960

   Archbishop of Tokyo

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 14 June 1960 – 23 September 1965

   Archbishop of Boston and New England

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 23 September 1965 – 1970

   Archbishop of New York and Metropolitan of America and Canada

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 1970 – 25 October 1977

   Archbishop of New York and Metropolitan of America and Canada

   Orthodox Church in America

6. 25 October 1977 – 18 March 1981

   Former Archbishop of New York and Metropolitan of America and Canada

   Orthodox Church in America

Consecration

Consecrated 7 June 1953 by:

• Leontii Turkevich Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1876–1965

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. Irinei Bekish Archbishop of New York and Metropolitan of America and Canada consecrated 7 June 1953
2. Leontii Turkevich Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1876–1965 consecrated 10 July 1933
3. Platon Rozhdestvenskii Metropolitan of the Aleutian Islands and North America, 1866–1934 consecrated 3 June 1902
4. Feognost Lebedev Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1829–1903 consecrated 22 January 1867
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

Bishops he consecrated 6

• 10 September 1961Anatolios Apostolides Former Bishop of Montréal and Canada, 1895–1976
• 6 May 1967Theodosius Lazor Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1933–2020
• 20 April 1968Joasaph Antoniuk Bishop of Edmonton and Western Canada, 1897–1978
• 22 June 1969Dmitri Royster Archbishop of Dallas and the South, 1923–2011
• 10 February 1973Herman Swaiko Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1931–2022
• 13 May 1973Gregory Afonsky Former Archbishop of Sitka and Alaska, 1925–2008

Sources

Also in: Wikidata