John Vendland

Life

Born

14 January 1909

Monastic tonsure

2 September 1934

Ordained deacon

14 September 1936

Ordained priest

15 September 1936

Made archimandrite

1950

Consecrated bishop

28 December 1958

Made archbishop

22 August 1961

Made metropolitan

3 August 1963

Retired

26 December 1984

Died

29 March 1989

Sees

1. 28 December 1958 – 30 June 1960

   Bishop of Podolsk

   Vicar of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 30 June 1960 – 22 August 1961

   Bishop of Central Europe

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 22 August 1961 – 16 June 1962

   Archbishop of Central Europe

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 16 June 1962 – 22 February 1963

   Archbishop of the Aleutian Islands and North America

   Exarch of North and South America · Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 22 February 1963 – 3 August 1963

   Archbishop of New York and the Aleutian Islands

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 3 August 1963 – 7 October 1967

   Metropolitan of New York and the Aleutian Islands

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 7 October 1967 – 26 December 1984

   Metropolitan of Yaroslavl and Rostov

   Patriarchate of Moscow

8. 1970

   Locum tenens of Vladimir

   Patriarchate of Moscow

9. 26 December 1984 – 29 March 1989

   Former Metropolitan of Yaroslavl and Rostov

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 28 December 1958 by:

• Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970
• Nicholas Yarushevich Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna, 1892–1961
• Makarii Dayev Archbishop of Mozhaisk, 1888–1960
• Gurii Egorov Metropolitan of Simferopol and the Crimea, 1891–1965
• Aleksii Konoplyov Metropolitan of Kalinin and Kashin, 1910–1988
• Pimen Izvekov Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1910–1990

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. John Vendland Metropolitan of Yaroslavl consecrated 28 December 1958
2. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
3. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
4. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
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 4

• 6 August 1961Cyprian Zyornov Archbishop of Berlin and Central Europe, 1911–1987
• 10 August 1961Nikodim Rusnak Metropolitan of Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv, 1921–2011
• 29 August 1962Mefodii Menzak Archbishop of Omsk and Tyumen, 1914–1974
• 9 May 1976Gleb Smirnov Archbishop of Oryol and Bryansk, 1913–1987

Sources

Also in: Wikidata