Michael Donskov

Life

Born

29 March 1943

Ordained deacon

1981

Ordained priest

1991

Monastic tonsure

1996

Consecrated bishop

12 July 1996

Made archbishop

9 December 2011

Retired

March 2018

Sees

1. 12 July 1996 – 14 May 2002

   Bishop of Toronto

   Vicar of Montréal and Canada · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 14 May 2002 – 19 May 2006

   Bishop of Boston

   Vicar of Eastern America · Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 19 May 2006 – 9 December 2011

   Bishop of Geneva and Western Europe

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 9 December 2011 – 2 December 2017

   Archbishop of Geneva and Western Europe

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 2 December 2017 – March 2018

   Archbishop of Meudon

   Vicar of Geneva and Western Europe · Patriarchate of Moscow

6. March 2018 – present

   Former Archbishop of Meudon

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 12 July 1996 by:

• Vitalii Ustinov Metropolitan of New York and Eastern America, 1910–2006

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 12 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Michael Donskov Archbishop of Meudon consecrated 12 July 1996
2. Vitalii Ustinov Metropolitan of New York and Eastern America, 1910–2006 consecrated 12 July 1951
3. Nathaniel Lvov Archbishop of Vienna and Austria, 1906–1986 consecrated 10 March 1946
4. Ieronim Chernov Archbishop of Detroit and Flint, 1878–1957 consecrated 18 August 1935
5. Vitalii Maksimenko Archbishop of Eastern America and Jersey City, 1873–1960 consecrated 6 May 1934
6. Anthony Khrapovitsky Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1863–1936 consecrated 7 September 1897
7. Arsenii Bryantsev Archbishop of Kharkiv and Okhtyrka, 1839–1914 consecrated 17 May 1882
8. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
9. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
10. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
11. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
12. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
13. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 5

• 7 September 2008Feodosii Ivashchenko Bishop of Manhattan, b. 1964
• 5 September 2010Nestor Sirotenko Metropolitan of Stupino, b. 1974
• 18 November 2012Basil Danilov Bishop of Kotlas and Velsk, b. 1956
• 27 January 2013Varlaam Ponomaryov Archbishop of Makhachkala and Derbent, b. 1974
• 29 June 2014Nicholas Olkhovskii Metropolitan of New York and Eastern America, b. 1974

Sources

• wikidata.org

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