Irinej Kovačević

Life

Born

6 September 1914

Monastic tonsure

30 December 1953

Ordained deacon

31 December 1953

Ordained priest

7 April 1954

Made archimandrite

1961

Consecrated bishop

7 December 1963

Made metropolitan

1978

Died

2 February 1998

Sees

1. 7 December 1963 – 1978

   Bishop of New Gračanica

   Patriarchate of Serbia

2. 1978 – 2 February 1998

   Metropolitan of New Gračanica

   Patriarchate of Serbia

Consecration

Consecrated 7 December 1963 by:

• Dionisije Milivojević Bishop of America, Australia and Western Europe, 1898–1979
• Gregory Ogiychuk Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (Canonical), 1893–1985
• Gennadii Shripikevich Archbishop

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. Irinej Kovačević Metropolitan of New Gračanica consecrated 7 December 1963
2. Gregory Ogiychuk Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (Canonical), 1893–1985 consecrated 17 May 1942
3. Nikanor Abramovich Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church Abroad, 1883–1969 consecrated 9 February 1942
4. Alexander Inozemtsev Metropolitan of Pinsk and Poliske, 1887–1948 consecrated 4 June 1922
5. George Yaroshevskii Metropolitan of Warsaw and Chełm, 1872–1923 consecrated 1 July 1906
6. Vladimir Bogoyavlenskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1848–1918 consecrated 13 June 1888
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

• 5 November 1977Peter Bankerović Bishop of Australia and New Zealand, 1925–1988
• 22 July 1990Damaskin Davidović Bishop, 1946–2017
• 17 June 1994Sava Jurić Bishop of Slavonia, b. 1942