Leontii Turkevich

Life

Born

21 August 1876

Ordained deacon

26 September 1905

Ordained priest

28 September 1905

Monastic tonsure

1933

Consecrated bishop

10 July 1933

Made metropolitan

1950

Died

14 May 1965

Sees

1. 10 July 1933 – 8 December 1950

   Bishop of Chicago

   Orthodox Church in America

2. 8 December 1950 – 14 May 1965

   Metropolitan of All America and Canada

   Orthodox Church in America

Consecration

Consecrated 10 July 1933 by:

• Platon Rozhdestvenskii Metropolitan of the Aleutian Islands and North America, 1866–1934
• Feofil Pashkovskii Archbishop of San Francisco and Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1874–1950
• Aleksii Panteleyev Archbishop of Omsk and Tyumen, 1874–1948

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 8 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Leontii Turkevich Metropolitan of All America and Canada consecrated 10 July 1933
2. Platon Rozhdestvenskii Metropolitan of the Aleutian Islands and North America, 1866–1934 consecrated 3 June 1902
3. Feognost Lebedev Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1829–1903 consecrated 22 January 1867
4. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
5. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
6. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
7. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
8. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
9. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 8

• 19 April 1936Samuel Hason Metropolitan of Toledo, 1893–1958
• 1942Vyacheslav Likhovskii Bishop of Pittsburgh and West Virginia, 1893–1952
• 9 December 1951Jonah Stalberg/Stahlberg Bishop of Washington, 1894–1955
• 7 June 1953Irinei Bekish Archbishop of New York and Metropolitan of America and Canada, 1892–1981
• 11 September 1955Ambrose Merezhko Former Archbishop of Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania, 1889–1974
• 1961Cyprian Borisevich Archbishop of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, 1903–1980
• 10 September 1961Anatolios Apostolides Former Bishop of Montréal and Canada, 1895–1976
• 14 October 1962Vladimir Nagosky Metropolitan of San Francisco and the West, 1922–1997

Sources

Also in: Wikidata