Nathaniel Popp

Life

Born

12 June 1940

Ordained priest

1966

Consecrated bishop

15 November 1980

Made archbishop

20 October 1999

Sees

1. 15 November 1980 – 17 November 1984

   Bishop of Dearborn Heights

   Orthodox Church in America

2. 17 November 1984 – 20 October 1999

   Bishop of Detroit and the Romanian Episcopate

   Orthodox Church in America

3. 20 October 1999 – present

   Archbishop of Detroit and the Romanian Episcopate

   Orthodox Church in America

Consecration

Consecrated 15 November 1980 by:

• Theodosius Lazor Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1933–2020
• Valerian Trifa Former Archbishop of the Romanian Episcopate, 1914–1987
• Cyril Yonchev Archbishop of Pittsburgh, Western Pennsylvania and the Bulgarian Diocese, 1920–2007
• Dmitri Royster Archbishop of Dallas and the South, 1923–2011
• Christopher Kovačević Metropolitan of the Midwest (Libertyville-Chicago), 1928–2010
• Boris Geeza Bishop of Chicago and the Midwest, 1923–2000
• Mark Forsberg Former Bishop of Boston, 1934–2018

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. Nathaniel Popp Archbishop of Detroit and the Romanian Episcopate consecrated 15 November 1980
2. Cyril Yonchev Archbishop of Pittsburgh, Western Pennsylvania and the Bulgarian Diocese, 1920–2007 consecrated 9 August 1964
3. John Maximovich Archbishop of San Francisco and Western America, 1896–1966 consecrated 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 16

• 13 June 1987Seraphim Storheim Archbishop of Ottawa and Canada, b. 1946
• 15 March 1998Joseph Pop Metropolitan of Western and Central Europe, b. 1966
• 22 April 2001Nicholas Soraich Former Bishop of Sitka and Alaska, b. 1949
• 25 May 2002Nikon Liolin Archbishop of Boston, New England and the Albanian Archdiocese, 1945–2019
• 14 July 2002Nicholas Condrea Metropolitan of the Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese of America and Canada, b. 1967
• 2 November 2002Irineu Duvlea Bishop of Dearborn Heights, b. 1962
• 11 May 2003Sofian Pătrunjel Bishop of Brașov, b. 1970
• 7 May 2005Mark Alric Bishop of Neamț, b. 1958
• 27 June 2009Melchisedek Pleska Bishop of Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania, b. 1942
• 1 October 2009Irénée Rochon Archbishop of Ottawa and Canada, b. 1948
• 8 May 2010Michael Dahulich Archbishop of New York and New Jersey, b. 1950
• 2 May 2011Matthias Moriak Bishop of Chicago and the Midwest, b. 1949
• 5 May 2012Alexander Golitzin Archbishop of Dallas and the Bulgarian Diocese, b. 1948
• 27 December 2014Paul Gassios Archbishop of Chicago and the Midwest, 1953–2022
• 24 January 2015Daniel Brum Archbishop of Chicago and the Midwest, b. 1954
• 1 February 2020Andrew Hoarşte Bishop of Cleveland, b. 1982