Michael Melnik

Life

Born

21 October 1903

Ordained priest

1929

Consecrated bishop

25 February 1946

Died

9 October 1955

Sees

1. 25 February 1946 – 9 October 1955

   Bishop of Drohobych and Sambir

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 25 February 1946 by:

• John Sokolov Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1877–1968
• Macarius Oksijuk Metropolitan of Warsaw and All Poland, 1884–1961
• Nestor Sidoruk Bishop of Kursk and Belgorod, 1904–1951
• Anthony Pelvetskii Archbishop of Stanislavsk and Kolomyya, 1897–1957

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. Michael Melnik Bishop of Drohobych and Sambir consecrated 25 February 1946
2. Nestor Sidoruk Bishop of Kursk and Belgorod, 1904–1951 consecrated 14 October 1945
3. Nicholas Yarushevich Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna, 1892–1961 consecrated 7 April 1922
4. Benjamin Kazanskii Metropolitan of Petrograd and Gdov, 1873–1922 consecrated 24 January 1910
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

Sources

Also in: Wikidata