Nicholas Soraich

Life

Born

9 April 1949

Monastic tonsure

8 August 1970

Ordained deacon

9 August 1970

Ordained priest

4 June 1972

Made archimandrite

13 May 1995

Elected bishop

21 March 2001

Consecrated bishop

22 April 2001

Retired

2008

Sees

1. 22 April 2001 – 4 March 2002

   Bishop of Baltimore

   Vicar of the Metropolitan · Orthodox Church in America

2. 4 March 2002 – May 2008

   Bishop of Sitka and Alaska

   Orthodox Church in America

3. May 2008 – 13 January 2014

   Former Bishop of Sitka and Alaska

   Orthodox Church in America

4. 13 January 2014 – present

   Former Bishop of Sitka and Alaska

   ROCOR/Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 22 April 2001 by:

• Theodosius Lazor Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1933–2020
• Dmitri Royster Archbishop of Dallas and the South, 1923–2011
• Herman Swaiko Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1931–2022
• Nathaniel Popp Archbishop of Detroit and the Romanian Episcopate, b. 1940
• Tikhon Fitzgerald Bishop of San Francisco and the West, 1932–2023

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. Nicholas Soraich Former Bishop of Sitka and Alaska consecrated 22 April 2001
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

• 25 May 2002Nikon Liolin Archbishop of Boston, New England and the Albanian Archdiocese, 1945–2019
• 1 May 2004Benjamin Peterson Archbishop of San Francisco, Los Angeles and the West, b. 1954
• 15 June 2006Irinej Dobrijević Bishop of Eastern America, b. 1955
• 29 June 2014Nicholas Olkhovskii Metropolitan of New York and Eastern America, b. 1974

Sources

Also in: Wikidata