Anthony Scharba

Life

Born

30 January 1947

Ordained deacon

1 October 1972

Ordained priest

26 November 1972

Monastic tonsure

29 May 1985

Made archimandrite

30 May 1985

Consecrated bishop

6 October 1985

Made archbishop

1997

Made metropolitan

6 October 2012

Sees

1. 6 October 1985 – 1995

   Bishop of New York

   Ukrainian Orthodox Church in America

2. 1989 – 1995

   Administrator of Australia and New Zealand

   Ukrainian Orthodox Church in America

3. 1995 – 1997

   Bishop of Hierapolis

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

4. 1997 – 6 October 2012

   Archbishop of Hierapolis

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

5. 6 October 2012 – present

   Metropolitan of Hierapolis, Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the United States

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 6 October 1985 by:

• Mstislav Skrypnyk Patriarch of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1898–1993

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 1 generation back to Mstislav Skrypnyk; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Anthony Scharba Metropolitan of Hierapolis, Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the United States consecrated 6 October 1985
2. Mstislav Skrypnyk Patriarch of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1898–1993 consecrated 14 May 1942

Bishops he consecrated 7

• 30 June 1991Polycarp Pakholyuk Bishop of Chernihiv and Sumy, b. 1960
• 27 October 1991John Derewianka Bishop of Parnassos, b. 1937
• 19 September 1993Jeremiah Ferens Archbishop of Aspendos, b. 1962
• 13 December 2005Andrew Peshko Bishop of Toronto, b. 1972
• 10 May 2008Daniel Zelinskyi Archbishop of Pamphilos, b. 1972
• 9 September 2012Pankratiy Dubas Bishop of Scopelos, b. 1955
• 28 September 2012Gregory Tatsis Metropolitan of Nyssa, b. 1958

Sources

Also in: Wikidata