Sawa Sowietow

Life

Born

6 April 1898

Monastic tonsure

1922

Ordained priest

1925

Made archimandrite

1929

Consecrated bishop

3 April 1932

Made archbishop

1947

Died

21 May 1951

Sees

1. 3 April 1932 – 1947

   Bishop of Lublin

   Vicar of Warsaw and Chełm · Church of Poland

2. 1947 – 21 May 1951

   Archbishop of Hrodna

   Church of Poland

Consecration

Consecrated 3 April 1932 by:

• Dionysius Valedinsky Metropolitan of Warsaw and All Poland, 1876–1960

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 3 generations back to Gerasimos I Protopapas; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Sawa Sowietow Archbishop of Hrodna consecrated 3 April 1932
2. Dionysius Valedinsky Metropolitan of Warsaw and All Poland, 1876–1960 consecrated 21 April 1913
3. Gregory IV Haddad Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, 1859–1928 consecrated 10 May 1890
4. Gerasimos I Protopapas Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem and All Palestine, 1839–1897 consecrated 11 December 1877

Bishops he consecrated 3

• 29 November 1938Matthew Siemaszko Bishop of Aspendos, 1894–1985
• 23 November 1941Eireneos Tsourounakes Bishop of San Francisco, 1890–1944
• 30 November 1941Germanos Polizoides Metropolitan of Hierapolis, 1898–1993

Sources

• wikidata.org

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