Vitalii Ustinov

Life

Born

18 October 1910

Monastic tonsure

1939

Consecrated bishop

12 July 1951

Made archbishop

1958

Made metropolitan

1986

Died

25 September 2006

Sees

1. 12 July 1951 – 26 February 1954

   Bishop of Brazil

   ROCOR

2. 26 February 1954 – 23 August 1957

   Bishop of Edmonton

   ROCOR

3. 23 August 1957 – 1958

   Bishop of Montréal and Canada

   ROCOR

4. 1958 – 22 January 1986

   Archbishop of Montréal and Canada

   ROCOR

5. 22 January 1986 – 23 October 2001

   Metropolitan of New York and Eastern America

   ROCOR

6. 23 October 2001 – 25 September 2006

   Metropolitan of New York and Eastern America

   ROCOR (Vitaly)

Consecration

Consecrated 12 July 1951 by:

• Leontii Bartoshevich Bishop of Geneva, 1914–1956
• Nathaniel Lvov Archbishop of Vienna and Austria, 1906–1986

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. Vitalii Ustinov Metropolitan of New York and Eastern America consecrated 12 July 1951
2. Nathaniel Lvov Archbishop of Vienna and Austria, 1906–1986 consecrated 10 March 1946
3. Ieronim Chernov Archbishop of Detroit and Flint, 1878–1957 consecrated 18 August 1935
4. Vitalii Maksimenko Archbishop of Eastern America and Jersey City, 1873–1960 consecrated 6 May 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 17

• 12 July 1951James Toombs Primate of the Orthodox American Church, 1887–1970
• 16 July 1967Paul Pavlov Archbishop of Sydney, Australia and New Zealand, 1927–1995
• 12 July 1974Alipii Gamanovich Former Archbishop of Chicago, 1926–2019
• 30 November 1980Mark Arndt Metropolitan of Berlin and Germany, b. 1941
• 29 August 1983Innocent Petrov Bishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina and Paraguay, 1903–1987
• 10 December 1984Hilarion Kapral Metropolitan of New York and Eastern America, 1948–2022
• 14 August 1988Daniel Aleksandrov Bishop of Erie, 1930–2010
• 28 August 1990John Legky Bishop of Rockland, 1907–1995
• 7 June 1992Cyril Dmitriev Archbishop of San Francisco and Western America, b. 1954
• 24 November 1992Mitrofan Znosko-Borovsky Bishop of Boston, 1909–2002
• 19 September 1993Serapheim Dulgoff Archbishop of Brussels and Western Europe, 1923–2003
• 26 September 1993Ambrose Cantacuzène Former Bishop of Geneva and Western Europe, 1947–2009
• 24 July 1994Evtikhii Kurochkin Bishop of Domodedovo, 1955–2022
• 7 July 1996Gabriel Chemodakov Archbishop of Montréal and Canada, b. 1961
• 12 July 1996Michael Donskov Archbishop of Meudon, b. 1943
• 3 November 2001Sergii Kindyakov Archbishop of Montréal and Eastern Canada, 1933–2006
• 11 November 2001Bartholomew Vorobyov Bishop of Edmonton and Western Canada, 1931–2009

Sources

Also in: Wikidata