Vigilios Sanchez Morales

Life

Born

1918

Ordained priest

1975

Monastic tonsure

1982

Consecrated bishop

31 October 1987

Made archbishop

1996

Died

16 April 2009

Sees

1. 31 October 1987 – 18 November 1993

   Bishop of Paris

   Synod of Milan

2. 18 November 1993 – 11 August 1996

   Bishop of Paris

   Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyiv Patriarchate

3. 11 August 1996 – 16 April 2009

   Archbishop of Paris, Primate of Église Orthodoxe Française

   Église Orthodoxe Française

Consecration

Consecrated 31 October 1987 by:

• Evloghios Hessler Archbishop of Milan, 1935–2019
• Gregory Bacolini Archbishop of Turin, b. 1913

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 13 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Vigilios Sanchez Morales Archbishop of Paris, Primate of Église Orthodoxe Française consecrated 31 October 1987
2. Evloghios Hessler Archbishop of Milan, 1935–2019 consecrated 9 September 1984
3. Gabriel Pinto da Rocha Metropolitan of Lisbon and Portugal, 1938–1997 consecrated 18 June 1978
4. Auxentios Pastras Bishop of Gardiki, 1912–1994 consecrated 1962
5. Leontii Filippovich Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina and Paraguay, 1904–1971 consecrated 7 November 1941
6. Aleksii Gromadskii Metropolitan of Volyn, 1882–1943 consecrated 3 September 1922
7. George Yaroshevskii Metropolitan of Warsaw and Chełm, 1872–1923 consecrated 1 July 1906
8. Vladimir Bogoyavlenskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1848–1918 consecrated 13 June 1888
9. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
10. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
11. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
12. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
13. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
14. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 3

• 28 September 1990Lazar Puhalo Archbishop of Ottawa, b. 1941
• 24 October 2004Martin Laplaud Archbishop of Paris, Primate of Église Orthodoxe Française, cons. 2004
• 17 December 2006Gregory Mendez Bishop, cons. 2006