Orthodox Hierarchs

ROCOR

Filaret Voznesenskii

Филарет

Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York · 1903–1985

Born Georgii Nikolayevich Voznesenskii (Георгий Николаевич Вознесенский)

Life

Born
4 April 1903
Ordained deacon
18 May 1930
Ordained priest
4 January 1931
Monastic tonsure
12 December 1931
Made archimandrite
1937
Consecrated bishop
26 May 1963
Made metropolitan
27 May 1964
Died
21 November 1985

Sees

  1. 26 May 1963 – 27 May 1964

    Bishop of Brisbane

    Vicar of Sydney · ROCOR

  2. 27 May 1964 – 21 November 1985

    Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York

    ROCOR

Consecration

Consecrated 26 May 1963 by:

  • Savva Rayevskii Archbishop of Sydney, Australia and New Zealand, 1892–1976
  • Anthony Medvedev Archbishop of San Francisco and Western America, 1908–2000

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 2 generations back to Anastasii Gribanovskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

  1. Filaret Voznesenskii Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York consecrated 26 May 1963
  2. Savva Rayevskii Archbishop of Sydney, Australia and New Zealand, 1892–1976 consecrated 24 January 1954
  3. Anastasii Gribanovskii Former Metropolitan of Chișinău and Hotin, 1873–1965 consecrated 29 June 1906

Bishops he consecrated 9

  • 9 August 1964Cyril Yonchev Archbishop of Pittsburgh, Western Pennsylvania and the Bulgarian Diocese, 1920–2007
  • 19 September 1965Jacobus Akkersdijk Archbishop of the Hague and the Netherlands, 1914–1991
  • 16 July 1967Paul Pavlov Archbishop of Sydney, Australia and New Zealand, 1927–1995
  • 13 August 1967Laurus Shkurla Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York, 1928–2008
  • 10 December 1967Constantine Jesensky Bishop of Richmond and Britain, 1907–1996
  • 12 July 1974Alipii Gamanovich Former Archbishop of Chicago, 1926–2019
  • 12 May 1979Gregory Grabbe Bishop of Washington and Florida, 1902–1995
  • 30 November 1980Mark Arndt Metropolitan of Berlin and Germany, b. 1941
  • 10 December 1984Hilarion Kapral Metropolitan of New York and Eastern America, 1948–2022

Sources

Also in: Wikidata

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