Gregory Afonsky

Life

Born

17 April 1925

Ordained priest

1965

Consecrated bishop

13 May 1973

Made archbishop

23 March 1995

Retired

20 July 1995

Died

15 April 2008

Sees

1. 13 May 1973 – 23 March 1995

   Bishop of Sitka and Alaska

   Orthodox Church in America

2. 23 March 1995 – 20 July 1995

   Archbishop of Sitka and Alaska

   Orthodox Church in America

3. 20 July 1995 – 15 April 2008

   Former Archbishop of Sitka and Alaska

   Orthodox Church in America

Consecration

Consecrated 13 May 1973 by:

• Irinei Bekish Archbishop of New York and Metropolitan of America and Canada, 1892–1981
• Cyprian Borisevich Archbishop of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, 1903–1980
• Theodosius Lazor Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1933–2020

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. Gregory Afonsky Former Archbishop of Sitka and Alaska consecrated 13 May 1973
2. Irinei Bekish Archbishop of New York and Metropolitan of America and Canada, 1892–1981 consecrated 7 June 1953
3. Leontii Turkevich Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1876–1965 consecrated 10 July 1933
4. Platon Rozhdestvenskii Metropolitan of the Aleutian Islands and North America, 1866–1934 consecrated 3 June 1902
5. Feognost Lebedev Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1829–1903 consecrated 22 January 1867
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