Augustine Peterson

Life

Born

17 February 1873

Ordained deacon

1904

Monastic tonsure

21 March 1936

Consecrated bishop

29 March 1936

Made metropolitan

29 March 1936

Died

4 October 1955

Sees

1. 29 March 1936 – 30 March 1941

   Metropolitan of Riga and All Latvia

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 30 March 1941 – date unknown

   Metropolitan of Riga and All Latvia

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. date unknown – 4 October 1955

   Metropolitan of Riga and All Latvia

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 29 March 1936 by:

• Germanos Strenopoulos Metropolitan of Thyateira and Great Britain, 1872–1951
• Thomas Savvopoulos Senior Metropolitan of Chalcedon, 1889–1996
• Constantine Alatopoulos Metropolitan of Irinoupolis, 1892–1961
• Alexander Paulus Metropolitan of Tallinn and All Estonia, 1872–1953
• Nicholas Leisman Archbishop of Petseri (Pechory), 1862–1947

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. Augustine Peterson Metropolitan of Riga and All Latvia consecrated 29 March 1936
2. Alexander Paulus Metropolitan of Tallinn and All Estonia, 1872–1953 consecrated 5 December 1920
3. Serapheim Lukoyanov Former Metropolitan of Western Europe, 1879–1959 consecrated 7 September 1914
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 3

• 27 September 1936Iakov Karp Archbishop of Elba, d. 1943
• 3 October 1937Paul Dmitrovskii Archbishop of Tallinn and Estonia, 1872–1946
• 17 July 1938Alexander Vitols Bishop of Madona, 1876–1942

Sources

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