Agapit Gorachek

Life

Born

29 September 1955

Monastic tonsure

29 March 1983

Ordained deacon

25 December 1983

Ordained priest

8 April 1991

Made hegumen

1995

Elected bishop

20 October 2000

Consecrated bishop

1 May 2001

Made archbishop

13 June 2017

Died

28 May 2020

Sees

1. 1 May 2001 – 17 May 2007

   Bishop of Stuttgart

   Vicar of Berlin and Germany · ROCOR

2. 17 May 2007 – 13 June 2017

   Bishop of Stuttgart

   Vicar of Berlin and Germany · ROCOR/Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 13 June 2017 – 28 May 2020

   Archbishop of Stuttgart

   Vicar of Berlin and Germany · ROCOR/Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 1 May 2001 by:

• Laurus Shkurla Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York, 1928–2008
• Mark Arndt Metropolitan of Berlin and Germany, b. 1941
• Hilarion Kapral Metropolitan of New York and Eastern America, 1948–2022
• Evtikhii Kurochkin Bishop of Domodedovo, 1955–2022
• Ambrose Cantacuzène Former Bishop of Geneva and Western Europe, 1947–2009

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. Agapit Gorachek Archbishop of Stuttgart consecrated 1 May 2001
2. Ambrose Cantacuzène Former Bishop of Geneva and Western Europe, 1947–2009 consecrated 26 September 1993
3. Anthony Bartoshevich Archbishop of Geneva and Western Europe, 1910–1993 consecrated 5 May 1957
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 2

• 10 June 2007Irinei Semko Metropolitan of Nizhyn and Pryluky, 1963–2017
• 20 January 2019Alexander Bishop of Vevey, b. 1956

Sources

Also in: Wikidata