Vladimir Tselishchev

Life

Born

1966

Monastic tonsure

1997

Ordained deacon

1999

Ordained priest

1999

Consecrated bishop

6 November 2001

Made archbishop

October 2009

Sees

1. 6 November 2001 – 2003

   Bishop of Sacramento

   ROCOR (Vitaly)

2. 2003 – October 2009

   Bishop of San Francisco and Western America

   ROCOR (Vitaly)

3. October 2009 – present

   Archbishop of San Francisco and Western America

   ROCOR (Vitaly)

Consecration

Consecrated 6 November 2001 by:

• Sergii Kindyakov Archbishop of Montréal and Eastern Canada, 1933–2006
• Barnabas Prokofiev Bishop of Cannes, 1945–2017

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 11 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Vladimir Tselishchev Bishop of San Francisco and Western America consecrated 6 November 2001
2. Barnabas Prokofiev Bishop of Cannes, 1945–2017 consecrated 29 April 1982
3. Anthony Bartoshevich Archbishop of Geneva and Western Europe, 1910–1993 consecrated 5 May 1957
4. John Maximovich Archbishop of San Francisco and Western America, 1896–1966 consecrated 1934
5. Anthony Khrapovitsky Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1863–1936 consecrated 7 September 1897
6. Arsenii Bryantsev Archbishop of Kharkiv and Okhtyrka, 1839–1914 consecrated 17 May 1882
7. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
8. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
9. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
10. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
11. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
12. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 3

• 11 November 2001Bartholomew Vorobyov Bishop of Edmonton and Western Canada, 1931–2009
• 23 November 2008Victor Parbus Bishop of the Far East, b. 1972
• 26 November 2008Aleksii Pergamentsev Bishop of Saltanoŭ and Malorossy, b. 1947