Alipii Gamanovich

Life

Born

19 December 1926

Monastic tonsure

1948

Ordained deacon

1950

Ordained priest

1954

Consecrated bishop

12 July 1974

Made archbishop

1990

Retired

1 July 2016

Died

28 April 2019

Sees

1. 12 July 1974 – 1987

   Bishop of Cleveland

   Vicar of Chicago · ROCOR

2. 1987 – 1990

   Bishop of Chicago

   ROCOR

3. 1990 – 17 May 2007

   Archbishop of Chicago

   ROCOR

4. 17 May 2007 – 1 July 2016

   Archbishop of Chicago

   ROCOR/Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 1 July 2016 – 28 April 2019

   Former Archbishop of Chicago

   ROCOR/Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 12 July 1974 by:

• Filaret Voznesenskii Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York, 1903–1985
• Serapheim Ivanov Archbishop of Chicago, Detroit and the Midwest, 1897–1987
• Vitalii Ustinov Metropolitan of New York and Eastern America, 1910–2006
• Laurus Shkurla Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York, 1928–2008

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. Alipii Gamanovich Former Archbishop of Chicago consecrated 12 July 1974
2. Serapheim Ivanov Archbishop of Chicago, Detroit and the Midwest, 1897–1987 consecrated 9 March 1946
3. Ieronim Chernov Archbishop of Detroit and Flint, 1878–1957 consecrated 18 August 1935
4. Vitalii Maksimenko Archbishop of Eastern America and Jersey City, 1873–1960 consecrated 6 May 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 3

• 10 December 1984Hilarion Kapral Metropolitan of New York and Eastern America, 1948–2022
• 14 August 1988Daniel Aleksandrov Bishop of Erie, 1930–2010
• 12 July 2003Peter Lukyanov Archbishop of Chicago and the Midwest, 1948–2024

Sources

Also in: Wikidata