John Bērziņš

Life

Born

16 March 1957

Monastic tonsure

29 March 1985

Ordained deacon

12 April 1987

Ordained priest

4 November 1987

Consecrated bishop

22 June 2008

Sees

1. 22 June 2008 – 2009

   Bishop of Caracas

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 2009 – present

   Bishop of Caracas and South America

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 22 June 2008 by:

• Hilarion Kapral Metropolitan of New York and Eastern America, 1948–2022
• Daniel Aleksandrov Bishop of Erie, 1930–2010
• Peter Lukyanov Archbishop of Chicago and the Midwest, 1948–2024

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 12 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. John Bērziņš Bishop of Caracas and South America consecrated 22 June 2008
2. Hilarion Kapral Metropolitan of New York and Eastern America, 1948–2022 consecrated 10 December 1984
3. Serapheim Ivanov Archbishop of Chicago, Detroit and the Midwest, 1897–1987 consecrated 9 March 1946
4. Ieronim Chernov Archbishop of Detroit and Flint, 1878–1957 consecrated 18 August 1935
5. Vitalii Maksimenko Archbishop of Eastern America and Jersey City, 1873–1960 consecrated 6 May 1934
6. Anthony Khrapovitsky Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1863–1936 consecrated 7 September 1897
7. Arsenii Bryantsev Archbishop of Kharkiv and Okhtyrka, 1839–1914 consecrated 17 May 1882
8. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
9. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
10. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
11. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
12. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
13. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 4

• 7 September 2008Feodosii Ivashchenko Bishop of Manhattan, b. 1964
• 7 December 2008George Schaefer Archbishop of Sydney, Australia and New Zealand, b. 1950
• 10 December 2008Jerome Shaw Bishop of Manhattan, b. 1946
• 29 June 2014Nicholas Olkhovskii Metropolitan of New York and Eastern America, b. 1974

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata