John Garklāvs

Life

Born

25 August 1898

Ordained deacon

20 September 1936

Ordained priest

27 September 1936

Monastic tonsure

26 November 1942

Consecrated bishop

13 March 1943

Made archbishop

1 February 1957

Retired

1 September 1978

Died

11 April 1982

Sees

1. 13 March 1943 – October 1949

   Bishop of Riga

   Latvian Orthodox Church

2. October 1949 – 1 February 1957

   Bishop of Detroit and Cleveland

   Orthodox Church in America

3. 1 February 1957 – 1 September 1978

   Archbishop of Chicago and Minneapolis

   Orthodox Church in America

4. 1 September 1978 – 11 April 1982

   Former Archbishop of Chicago and Minneapolis

   Orthodox Church in America

Consecration

Consecrated 13 March 1943 by:

• Sergii Voskresenskii Metropolitan of Vilnius and Lithuania, 1897–1944
• Paul Dmitrovskii Archbishop of Tallinn and Estonia, 1872–1946
• Daniel Yuzvyuk Archbishop of Pinsk and Poliske, 1880–1965

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. John Garklāvs Archbishop of Chicago and the Midwest consecrated 13 March 1943
2. Sergii Voskresenskii Metropolitan of Vilnius and Lithuania, 1897–1944 consecrated 29 October 1933
3. Serapheim Chichagov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Gdov, 1856–1937 consecrated 28 April 1905
4. Vladimir Bogoyavlenskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1848–1918 consecrated 13 June 1888
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 1

• 17 October 1978Boris Geeza Bishop of Chicago and the Midwest, 1923–2000

Sources

Also in: Wikidata