James Corazza

Life

Born

13 December 1958

Monastic tonsure

September 1986

Ordained deacon

1994

Ordained priest

2004

Made archimandrite

29 June 2019

Consecrated bishop

6 November 2019

Sees

1. 6 November 2019 – present

   Bishop of Sonora

   Vicar of San Francisco · Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 6 November 2019 by:

• Cyril Dmitriev Archbishop of San Francisco and Western America, b. 1954
• Benjamin Peterson Archbishop of San Francisco, Los Angeles and the West, b. 1954
• Feodosii Ivashchenko Bishop of Manhattan, b. 1964
• Nicholas Olkhovskii Metropolitan of New York and Eastern America, b. 1974

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. James Corazza Bishop of Sonora consecrated 6 November 2019
2. Benjamin Peterson Archbishop of San Francisco, Los Angeles and the West, b. 1954 consecrated 1 May 2004
3. Herman Swaiko Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1931–2022 consecrated 10 February 1973
4. Silvester Haruns Archbishop of Montréal and Canada, 1914–2000 consecrated 27 April 1952
5. Vladimir Tikhonitskii Metropolitan of Białystok, 1873–1959 consecrated 3 June 1907
6. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
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 1

• 29 June 2021Gerasim Eliel Bishop of Fort Worth, b. 1961

Sources

Also in: Wikidata