Ambrose Cantacuzène

Life

Born

16 September 1947

Ordained deacon

Spring 1976

Ordained priest

26 September 1976

Monastic tonsure

6 September 1993

Consecrated bishop

26 September 1993

Retired

2006

Died

20 July 2009

Sees

1. 26 September 1993 – 17 October 2000

   Bishop of Vevey

   ROCOR

2. 17 October 2000 – 19 May 2006

   Bishop of Geneva and Western Europe

   ROCOR

3. 19 May 2006 – 17 May 2007

   Former Bishop of Geneva and Western Europe

   ROCOR

4. 17 May 2007 – 20 July 2009

   Former Bishop of Geneva and Western Europe

   ROCOR/Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 26 September 1993 by:

• Vitalii Ustinov Metropolitan of New York and Eastern America, 1910–2006
• Anthony Bartoshevich Archbishop of Geneva and Western Europe, 1910–1993
• Mark Arndt Metropolitan of Berlin and Germany, b. 1941
• Serapheim Dulgoff Archbishop of Brussels and Western Europe, 1923–2003

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. Ambrose Cantacuzène Former Bishop of Geneva and Western Europe consecrated 26 September 1993
2. Anthony Bartoshevich Archbishop of Geneva and Western Europe, 1910–1993 consecrated 5 May 1957
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 1

• 1 May 2001Agapit Gorachek Archbishop of Stuttgart, 1955–2020

Sources

Also in: Wikidata