Orthodox Hierarchs

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Vitalii Maksimenko

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Archbishop of Eastern America and Jersey City · 1873–1960

Born Vasilii Ivanovich Maksimenko (Василий Иванович Максименко)

Life

Born
20 August 1873
Consecrated bishop
6 May 1934
Made archbishop
4 September 1934
Died
21 March 1960

Sees

  1. 6 May 1934 – 4 September 1934

    Bishop of Detroit

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  2. 4 September 1934 – November 1935

    Archbishop of North America and Canada

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  3. 27 May 1947 – 21 March 1960

    Archbishop of Eastern America and Jersey City

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Consecration

Consecrated 6 May 1934 by:

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 8 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

  1. Vitalii Maksimenko Archbishop of Eastern America and Jersey City consecrated 6 May 1934
  2. Anthony Khrapovitsky Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1863–1936 consecrated 7 September 1897
  3. Arsenii Bryantsev Archbishop of Kharkiv and Okhtyrka, 1839–1914 consecrated 17 May 1882
  4. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
  5. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
  6. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
  7. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
  8. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
  9. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 4

  • 18 August 1935Ieronim Chernov Archbishop of Detroit and Flint, 1878–1957
  • 19 April 1936Anthony Bashir Archbishop of New York and Metropolitan of All North America, 1898–1966
  • 27 June 1948Nikon Rklitskii Archbishop of Washington and Florida, 1892–1976
  • 25 May 1953Averky Taushev Archbishop of Syracuse and Holy Trinity, 1906–1976

Sources

Also in: Wikidata

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