Benjamin Basalyga

Life

Born

1887

Monastic tonsure

1911

Ordained priest

1911

Made archimandrite

1920

Consecrated bishop

1933

Made archbishop

1945

Died

15 November 1963

Sees

1. 1933 – 1945

   Bishop of Pittsburgh and West Virginia

   Orthodox Church in America

2. 1945 – 1953

   Archbishop of Japan

   Orthodox Church in America

3. 1953 – 15 November 1963

   Archbishop of Pittsburgh and West Virginia

   Orthodox Church in America

Consecration

Consecrated 1933 by:

• Feofil Pashkovskii Archbishop of San Francisco and Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1874–1950

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 9 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Benjamin Basalyga Archbishop of Pittsburgh and West Virginia consecrated 1933
2. Feofil Pashkovskii Archbishop of San Francisco and Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1874–1950 consecrated 6 December 1922
3. Platon Rozhdestvenskii Metropolitan of the Aleutian Islands and North America, 1866–1934 consecrated 3 June 1902
4. Feognost Lebedev Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1829–1903 consecrated 22 January 1867
5. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
6. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
7. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
8. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
9. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
10. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 2

• 10 March 1946John Zlobin Archbishop of the Aleutian Islands, 1880–1959
• 10 September 1961Anatolios Apostolides Former Bishop of Montréal and Canada, 1895–1976

Sources

• wikidata.org

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