Boris Geeza

Life

Born

18 November 1923

Ordained deacon

1947

Ordained priest

May 1947

Monastic tonsure

16 September 1978

Made archimandrite

16 September 1978

Consecrated bishop

17 October 1978

Retired

December 1988

Died

30 December 2000

Sees

1. 17 October 1978 – November 1988

   Bishop of Chicago and Minneapolis

   Orthodox Church in America

2. November 1988 – 30 December 2000

   Former Bishop of Chicago and Minneapolis

   Orthodox Church in America

Consecration

Consecrated 17 October 1978 by:

• Theodosius Lazor Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1933–2020
• John Garklāvs Archbishop of Chicago and the Midwest, 1898–1982
• Cyril Yonchev Archbishop of Pittsburgh, Western Pennsylvania and the Bulgarian Diocese, 1920–2007
• Firmilijan Ocokoljić Bishop of Midwestern America, 1910–1992
• Irinei Serednii Metropolitan of Dnipropetrovsk and Pavlohrad, b. 1939

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. Boris Geeza Bishop of Chicago and the Midwest consecrated 17 October 1978
2. John Garklāvs Archbishop of Chicago and the Midwest, 1898–1982 consecrated 13 March 1943
3. Sergii Voskresenskii Metropolitan of Vilnius and Lithuania, 1897–1944 consecrated 29 October 1933
4. Serapheim Chichagov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Gdov, 1856–1937 consecrated 28 April 1905
5. Vladimir Bogoyavlenskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1848–1918 consecrated 13 June 1888
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 2

• 15 November 1980Nathaniel Popp Archbishop of Detroit and the Romanian Episcopate, b. 1940
• 13 June 1987Seraphim Storheim Archbishop of Ottawa and Canada, b. 1946

Sources

Also in: Wikidata