Orthodox Hierarchs

Church of Albania

Visarion Xhuvani

Visarion

Archbishop of Tirana, Durrës and All Albania · 1890–1965

Born Xhuvani (Xhuvani)

Life

Born
14 December 1890
Consecrated bishop
3 May 1925
Made archbishop
February 1929
Died
15 December 1965

Sees

  1. 3 May 1925 – February 1929

    Bishop of Durrës

    Church of Albania

  2. February 1929 – 1937

    Archbishop of Tirana, Durrës and All Albania

    Church of Albania

  3. 1937 – 15 December 1965

    Former Archbishop of Tirana, Durrës and All Albania

    Church of Albania

Consecration

Consecrated 3 May 1925 by:

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. Visarion Xhuvani Archbishop of Tirana, Durrës and All Albania consecrated 3 May 1925
  2. Michael Bogdanov Bishop of Vladivostok and Primorye, 1867–1925 consecrated 30 August 1907
  3. Dimitrii Sambikin Archbishop of Kazan and Sviyazhsk, 1839–1908 consecrated 4 January 1887
  4. Ioannikii Rudnev Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1826–1900 consecrated 12 June 1861
  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

Sources

Also in: Wikidata

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