Averky Taushev

Life

Born

1 November 1906

Monastic tonsure

30 May 1931

Ordained deacon

31 May 1931

Ordained priest

1932

Made archimandrite

1944

Consecrated bishop

25 May 1953

Made archbishop

17 August 1961

Died

13 April 1976

Sees

1. 25 May 1953 – 17 August 1961

   Bishop of Syracuse

   Vicar of Eastern America · ROCOR

2. 17 August 1961 – 13 April 1976

   Archbishop of Syracuse and Holy Trinity

   ROCOR

Consecration

Consecrated 25 May 1953 by:

• Anastasii Gribanovskii Former Metropolitan of Chișinău and Hotin, 1873–1965
• Vitalii Maksimenko Archbishop of Eastern America and Jersey City, 1873–1960
• John Maximovich Archbishop of San Francisco and Western America, 1896–1966
• Nikon Rklitskii Archbishop of Washington and Florida, 1892–1976
• Serapheim Ivanov Archbishop of Chicago, Detroit and the Midwest, 1897–1987
• James Toombs Primate of the Orthodox American Church, 1887–1970

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. Averky Taushev Archbishop of Syracuse and Holy Trinity consecrated 25 May 1953
2. Vitalii Maksimenko Archbishop of Eastern America and Jersey City, 1873–1960 consecrated 6 May 1934
3. Anthony Khrapovitsky Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1863–1936 consecrated 7 September 1897
4. Arsenii Bryantsev Archbishop of Kharkiv and Okhtyrka, 1839–1914 consecrated 17 May 1882
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 2

• 9 August 1964Cyril Yonchev Archbishop of Pittsburgh, Western Pennsylvania and the Bulgarian Diocese, 1920–2007
• 13 August 1967Laurus Shkurla Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York, 1928–2008

Sources

Also in: Wikidata