Herman Swaiko

Life

Born

1 February 1931

Ordained deacon

March 1964

Ordained priest

7 April 1964

Monastic tonsure

4 December 1970

Made archimandrite

October 1972

Consecrated bishop

10 February 1973

Made archbishop

1994

Made metropolitan

22 July 2002

Retired

4 September 2008

Died

6 September 2022

Sees

1. 10 February 1973 – 1981

   Bishop of Wilkes-Barre

   Orthodox Church in America

2. 1981 – 1994

   Bishop of Philadelphia

   Orthodox Church in America

3. 1994 – 22 July 2002

   Archbishop of Philadelphia

   Orthodox Church in America

4. 2001 – 22 July 2002

   Locum tenens of Washington

   Orthodox Church in America

5. 22 July 2002 – 4 September 2008

   Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada

   Orthodox Church in America

6. 4 September 2008 – 6 September 2022

   Former Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada

   Orthodox Church in America

Consecration

Consecrated 10 February 1973 by:

• Irinei Bekish Archbishop of New York and Metropolitan of America and Canada, 1892–1981
• Silvester Haruns Archbishop of Montréal and Canada, 1914–2000
• Cyprian Borisevich Archbishop of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, 1903–1980
• Valerian Trifa Former Archbishop of the Romanian Episcopate, 1914–1987
• Theodosius Lazor Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1933–2020
• Dmitri Royster Archbishop of Dallas and the South, 1923–2011

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. Herman Swaiko Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada consecrated 10 February 1973
2. Silvester Haruns Archbishop of Montréal and Canada, 1914–2000 consecrated 27 April 1952
3. Vladimir Tikhonitskii Metropolitan of Białystok, 1873–1959 consecrated 3 June 1907
4. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
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 7

• 22 April 2001Nicholas Soraich Former Bishop of Sitka and Alaska, b. 1949
• 2 September 2001Alexander Agrikov Metropolitan of Bryansk and Sevsk, b. 1953
• 25 May 2002Nikon Liolin Archbishop of Boston, New England and the Albanian Archdiocese, 1945–2019
• 2 November 2002Irineu Duvlea Bishop of Dearborn Heights, b. 1962
• 14 February 2004Tikhon Mollard Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, b. 1966
• 1 May 2004Benjamin Peterson Archbishop of San Francisco, Los Angeles and the West, b. 1954
• 28 May 2005Alejo Pacheco y Vera Archbishop of Mexico City and the Exarchate of Mexico, b. 1954

Sources

Also in: Wikidata