Nikon de Greve

Life

Born

19 February 1895

Monastic tonsure

1928

Ordained deacon

1928

Ordained priest

1928

Consecrated bishop

1946

Made archbishop

1959

Died

11 June 1983

Sees

1. 1946 – 1947

   Bishop of Brussels

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1947 – 7 May 1952

   Bishop of Philadelphia

   Orthodox Church in America

3. 7 May 1952 – 1958

   Bishop of Toronto

   Orthodox Church in America

4. 1959 – 1963

   Archbishop of Tokyo

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 1963 – 1965

   Archbishop

   Vicar of the Metropolitan of New York · Orthodox Church in America

6. 1965 – 11 June 1983

   Archbishop of Brooklyn

   Orthodox Church in America

Consecration

Consecrated 1946 by:

• Evlogii Georgievskii Metropolitan of Western Europe, Patriarchal Exarch, 1868–1946
• Ieronim Zakharov Archbishop of Rostov and Novocherkassk, 1897–1966
• Serapheim Lukoyanov Former Metropolitan of Western Europe, 1879–1959
• Vladimir Tikhonitskii Metropolitan of Białystok, 1873–1959
• Sergii Korolyov Archbishop of Kazan and Chistopol, 1881–1952
• John Leonchukov Bishop of Sergiev, 1866–1947

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 8 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Nikon de Greve Archbishop of Brooklyn consecrated 1946
2. Serapheim Lukoyanov Former Metropolitan of Western Europe, 1879–1959 consecrated 7 September 1914
3. Vladimir Bogoyavlenskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1848–1918 consecrated 13 June 1888
4. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
5. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
6. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
7. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
8. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
9. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 3

• 28 July 1947Cassian Bezobrazov Bishop of Catania, 1892–1965
• 6 May 1967Theodosius Lazor Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1933–2020
• 20 April 1968Joasaph Antoniuk Bishop of Edmonton and Western Canada, 1897–1978

Sources

Also in: Wikidata