Cyril Yonchev

Life

Born

26 February 1920

Monastic tonsure

19 January 1941

Ordained deacon

20 January 1941

Ordained priest

April 1943

Made archimandrite

6 December 1959

Consecrated bishop

9 August 1964

Made archbishop

November 1992

Died

17 June 2007

Sees

1. 9 August 1964 – 1976

   Bishop of Toledo and Toronto

   ROCOR

2. 1976 – 15 October 1978

   Bishop of the Bulgarian Diocese

   Orthodox Church in America

3. 1978

   Locum tenens of Western Pennsylvania

   Orthodox Church in America

4. 15 October 1978 – November 1992

   Bishop of Pittsburgh, Western Pennsylvania and the Bulgarian Diocese

   Orthodox Church in America

5. November 1992 – 17 June 2007

   Archbishop of Pittsburgh, Western Pennsylvania and the Bulgarian Diocese

   Orthodox Church in America

Consecration

Consecrated 9 August 1964 by:

• Filaret Voznesenskii Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York, 1903–1985
• Averky Taushev Archbishop of Syracuse and Holy Trinity, 1906–1976
• John Maximovich Archbishop of San Francisco and Western America, 1896–1966

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. Cyril Yonchev Archbishop of Pittsburgh, Western Pennsylvania and the Bulgarian Diocese consecrated 9 August 1964
2. John Maximovich Archbishop of San Francisco and Western America, 1896–1966 consecrated 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 6

• 13 August 1967Laurus Shkurla Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York, 1928–2008
• 17 October 1978Boris Geeza Bishop of Chicago and the Midwest, 1923–2000
• 15 November 1980Nathaniel Popp Archbishop of Detroit and the Romanian Episcopate, b. 1940
• 25 May 2002Nikon Liolin Archbishop of Boston, New England and the Albanian Archdiocese, 1945–2019
• 2 November 2002Irineu Duvlea Bishop of Dearborn Heights, b. 1962
• 14 February 2004Tikhon Mollard Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, b. 1966

Sources

Also in: Wikidata