Alejo Pacheco y Vera

Life

Born

1954

Monastic tonsure

1978

Ordained deacon

14 January 1979

Ordained priest

1 March 1981

Made archimandrite

2003

Consecrated bishop

28 May 2005

Made archbishop

9 May 2012

Sees

1. 28 May 2005 – 2008

   Bishop of Mexico City

   Vicar of the Metropolitan of America · Orthodox Church in America

2. 2008 – 9 May 2012

   Bishop of Mexico City and the Exarchate of Mexico

   Orthodox Church in America

3. 9 May 2012 – present

   Archbishop of Mexico City and the Exarchate of Mexico

   Orthodox Church in America

Consecration

Consecrated 28 May 2005 by:

• Herman Swaiko Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1931–2022

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. Alejo Pacheco y Vera Archbishop of Mexico City and the Exarchate of Mexico consecrated 28 May 2005
2. Herman Swaiko Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1931–2022 consecrated 10 February 1973
3. Silvester Haruns Archbishop of Montréal and Canada, 1914–2000 consecrated 27 April 1952
4. Vladimir Tikhonitskii Metropolitan of Białystok, 1873–1959 consecrated 3 June 1907
5. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
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 4

• 1 November 2008Jonah Paffhausen Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, b. 1959
• 2 May 2011Matthias Moriak Bishop of Chicago and the Midwest, b. 1949
• 9 September 2012Pankratiy Dubas Bishop of Scopelos, b. 1955
• 6 December 2020Hesychios Thanos Bishop of Markiani, b. 1969