James Toombs

Life

Born

30 August 1887

Monastic tonsure

July 1951

Consecrated bishop

12 July 1951

Made archbishop

13 July 1951

Defrocked

1959

Died

1 November 1970

Sees

1. 12 July 1951 – 13 July 1951

   Bishop of Manhattan

   Vicar of Jersey City and Eastern America · ROCOR

2. 13 July 1951 – 21 October 1955

   Archbishop of Manhattan

   Vicar of Jersey City and Eastern America · ROCOR

3. 21 October 1955 – 1959

   Former Archbishop of Manhattan

   Vicar of Jersey City and Eastern America · ROCOR

4. 1959 – 1 November 1970

   Primate of the Orthodox American Church

   Orthodox American Church

Consecration

Consecrated 12 July 1951 by:

• Anastasii Gribanovskii Former Metropolitan of Chișinău and Hotin, 1873–1965
• Vitalii Ustinov Metropolitan of New York and Eastern America, 1910–2006
• John Maximovich Archbishop of San Francisco and Western America, 1896–1966
• Nikon Rklitskii Archbishop of Washington and Florida, 1892–1976
• Serapheim Ivanov Archbishop of Chicago, Detroit and the Midwest, 1897–1987

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. James Toombs Primate of the Orthodox American Church consecrated 12 July 1951
2. John Maximovich Archbishop of San Francisco and Western America, 1896–1966 consecrated 1934
3. Anthony Khrapovitsky Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1863–1936 consecrated 7 September 1897
4. Arsenii Bryantsev Archbishop of Kharkiv and Okhtyrka, 1839–1914 consecrated 17 May 1882
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 1

• 25 May 1953Averky Taushev Archbishop of Syracuse and Holy Trinity, 1906–1976

Sources

Also in: Wikidata