Stephen Sabelnik

Life

Born

28 September 1947

Ordained deacon

6 January 1973

Ordained priest

23 June 1975

Monastic tonsure

2007

Consecrated bishop

18 December 2007

Sees

1. 18 December 2007 – 2015

   Bishop of Trenton

   Russian True Orthodox Church

2. 2015 – present

   Bishop of Trenton and North America

   Self-proclaimed/Independent

Consecration

Consecrated 18 December 2007 by:

• Tikhon Pasechnik Archbishop of Omsk and Siberia, b. 1948
• Hermogen Dunikov Bishop of Homieĺ and Bryansk, cons. 2002

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 13 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Stephen Sabelnik Bishop of Trenton and North America consecrated 18 December 2007
2. Tikhon Pasechnik Archbishop of Omsk and Siberia, b. 1948 consecrated 18 August 2002
3. Lazar Zhurbenko Archbishop of Tambov and Morshansk, d. 2005 consecrated 10 May 1982
4. Barnabas Prokofiev Bishop of Cannes, 1945–2017 consecrated 29 April 1982
5. Anthony Bartoshevich Archbishop of Geneva and Western Europe, 1910–1993 consecrated 5 May 1957
6. John Maximovich Archbishop of San Francisco and Western America, 1896–1966 consecrated 1934
7. Anthony Khrapovitsky Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1863–1936 consecrated 7 September 1897
8. Arsenii Bryantsev Archbishop of Kharkiv and Okhtyrka, 1839–1914 consecrated 17 May 1882
9. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
10. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
11. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
12. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
13. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
14. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Sources

Also in: Wikidata