John Holoňa

Life

Born

29 January 1937

Ordained deacon

8 November 1958

Ordained priest

16 November 1958

Monastic tonsure

10 March 1980

Consecrated bishop

22 May 1983

Made archbishop

23 January 2006

Died

2 August 2012

Sees

1. 22 May 1983 – 23 January 2006

   Bishop of Michalovce

   Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia

2. 23 January 2006 – 2 August 2012

   Archbishop of Prešov

   Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia

Consecration

Consecrated 22 May 1983 by:

• Dorotheos Filipp Metropolitan of Prague and All the Czech Lands and Slovakia, 1913–1999
• Nicholas Kosvar Archbishop of Prešov and Metropolitan of All the Czech Lands and Slovakia, 1927–2006
• Nikanor Yukhimyuk Archbishop of Kamyanets-Podilskyi, 1935–1997

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 10 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. John Holoňa Archbishop of Prešov consecrated 22 May 1983
2. Dorotheos Filipp Metropolitan of Prague and All the Czech Lands and Slovakia, 1913–1999 consecrated 12 June 1955
3. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
4. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
5. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
6. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
7. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
8. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
9. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
10. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
11. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 2

• 8 April 2006Tihon Hollósy Bishop of Komárno, 1948–2017
• 30 September 2007Juraj Stránský Archbishop of Michalovce and Košice, b. 1979

Sources

Also in: Wikidata