Benjamin Peterson

Life

Born

1954

Ordained deacon

15 November 1987

Monastic tonsure

1988

Ordained priest

19 July 1997

Made archimandrite

2002

Consecrated bishop

1 May 2004

Made archbishop

9 May 2012

Sees

1. 1 May 2004 – 20 March 2007

   Bishop of Berkeley

   Vicar of the West · Orthodox Church in America

2. 20 March 2007 – 9 May 2012

   Bishop of San Francisco, Los Angeles and the West

   Orthodox Church in America

3. 9 May 2012 – present

   Archbishop of San Francisco, Los Angeles and the West

   Orthodox Church in America

Consecration

Consecrated 1 May 2004 by:

• Herman Swaiko Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1931–2022
• Tikhon Fitzgerald Bishop of San Francisco and the West, 1932–2023
• Nicholas Soraich Former Bishop of Sitka and Alaska, b. 1949

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 10 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Benjamin Peterson Archbishop of San Francisco, Los Angeles and the West consecrated 1 May 2004
2. Herman Swaiko Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1931–2022 consecrated 10 February 1973
3. Silvester Haruns Archbishop of Montréal and Canada, 1914–2000 consecrated 27 April 1952
4. Vladimir Tikhonitskii Metropolitan of Białystok, 1873–1959 consecrated 3 June 1907
5. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
6. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
7. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
8. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
9. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
10. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
11. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 11

• 1 November 2008Jonah Paffhausen Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, b. 1959
• 27 June 2009Melchisedek Pleska Bishop of Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania, b. 1942
• 1 October 2009Irénée Rochon Archbishop of Ottawa and Canada, b. 1948
• 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
• 6 November 2019James Corazza Bishop of Sonora, b. 1958
• 1 February 2020Andrew Hoarşte Bishop of Cleveland, b. 1982
• 29 June 2021Gerasim Eliel Bishop of Fort Worth, b. 1961