Matthew Siemaszko

Life

Born

22 October 1894

Ordained deacon

1922

Ordained priest

1922

Monastic tonsure

November 1938

Made archimandrite

November 1938

Consecrated bishop

29 November 1938

Died

13 March 1985

Sees

1. 29 November 1938 – 1944

   Bishop of Braslaw

   Vicar of Vilnius · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1944 – 1951

   Bishop of the Polish Orthodox Church Abroad

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

3. 1951 – 1978

   Archbishop of the Polish Orthodox Church Abroad

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

4. 1978 – 13 March 1985

   Bishop of Aspendos

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 29 November 1938 by:

• Dionysius Valedinsky Metropolitan of Warsaw and All Poland, 1876–1960
• Alexander Inozemtsev Metropolitan of Pinsk and Poliske, 1887–1948
• Aleksii Gromadskii Metropolitan of Volyn, 1882–1943
• Sawa Sowietow Archbishop of Hrodna, 1898–1951

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. Matthew Siemaszko Bishop of Aspendos consecrated 29 November 1938
2. Alexander Inozemtsev Metropolitan of Pinsk and Poliske, 1887–1948 consecrated 4 June 1922
3. George Yaroshevskii Metropolitan of Warsaw and Chełm, 1872–1923 consecrated 1 July 1906
4. Vladimir Bogoyavlenskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1848–1918 consecrated 13 June 1888
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 2

• 13 May 1956Iakovos Virvos Metropolitan of Christoupolis, 1901–1976
• 6 December 1959Dionysios Psiachas Metropolitan of Prousa, 1916–2008

Sources

Also in: Wikidata