Melchisedek Pleska

Life

Born

20 August 1942

Ordained priest

1985

Ordained deacon

21 November 1985

Monastic tonsure

2004

Consecrated bishop

27 June 2009

Made archbishop

21 March 2014

Sees

1. 27 June 2009 – 21 March 2014

   Bishop of Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania

   Orthodox Church in America

2. 21 March 2014 – present

   Archbishop of Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania

   Orthodox Church in America

Consecration

Consecrated 27 June 2009 by:

• Jonah Paffhausen Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, b. 1959
• Nathaniel Popp Archbishop of Detroit and the Romanian Episcopate, b. 1940
• Job Osacky Archbishop of Chicago and the Midwest, 1946–2009
• Seraphim Storheim Archbishop of Ottawa and Canada, b. 1946
• Nikon Liolin Archbishop of Boston, New England and the Albanian Archdiocese, 1945–2019
• Benjamin Peterson Archbishop of San Francisco, Los Angeles and the West, b. 1954
• Tikhon Mollard Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, b. 1966

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. Melchisedek Pleska Bishop of Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania consecrated 27 June 2009
2. Nathaniel Popp Archbishop of Detroit and the Romanian Episcopate, b. 1940 consecrated 15 November 1980
3. Cyril Yonchev Archbishop of Pittsburgh, Western Pennsylvania and the Bulgarian Diocese, 1920–2007 consecrated 9 August 1964
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 7

• 8 May 2010Michael Dahulich Archbishop of New York and New Jersey, b. 1950
• 2 May 2011Matthias Moriak Bishop of Chicago and the Midwest, b. 1949
• 5 May 2012Alexander Golitzin Archbishop of Dallas and the Bulgarian Diocese, b. 1948
• 27 December 2014Paul Gassios Archbishop of Chicago and the Midwest, 1953–2022
• 24 January 2015Daniel Brum Archbishop of Chicago and the Midwest, b. 1954
• 25 January 2020Alexis Trader Bishop of Bethesda, b. 1965
• 29 June 2021Gerasim Eliel Bishop of Fort Worth, b. 1961

Sources

Also in: Wikidata