Gerasim Eliel

Life

Born

16 July 1961

Monastic tonsure

May 1992

Ordained deacon

1 January 1995

Ordained priest

5 January 1995

Made archimandrite

April 2013

Consecrated bishop

29 June 2021

Sees

1. 29 June 2021 – present

   Bishop of Fort Worth

   Vicar of Dallas · Orthodox Church in America

Consecration

Consecrated 29 June 2021 by:

• Tikhon Mollard Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, b. 1966
• Isaiah Chanturia Metropolitan of Nikozi and Tskhinvali, b. 1961
• Benjamin Peterson Archbishop of San Francisco, Los Angeles and the West, b. 1954
• Melchisedek Pleska Bishop of Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania, b. 1942
• Alexander Golitzin Archbishop of Dallas and the Bulgarian Diocese, b. 1948
• Paul Gassios Archbishop of Chicago and the Midwest, 1953–2022
• Daniel Brum Archbishop of Chicago and the Midwest, b. 1954
• James Corazza Bishop of Sonora, b. 1958
• Andrew Hoarşte Bishop of Cleveland, b. 1982

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. Gerasim Eliel Bishop of Fort Worth consecrated 29 June 2021
2. Benjamin Peterson Archbishop of San Francisco, Los Angeles and the West, b. 1954 consecrated 1 May 2004
3. Herman Swaiko Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1931–2022 consecrated 10 February 1973
4. Silvester Haruns Archbishop of Montréal and Canada, 1914–2000 consecrated 27 April 1952
5. Vladimir Tikhonitskii Metropolitan of Białystok, 1873–1959 consecrated 3 June 1907
6. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
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