Leontii Filippovich

Life

Born

19 August 1904

Monastic tonsure

1927

Ordained deacon

1928

Ordained priest

1930

Made archimandrite

1935

Consecrated bishop

7 November 1941

Made archbishop

23 August 1957

Died

2 July 1971

Sees

1. 7 November 1941 – 1944

   Bishop of Berdychiv

   Ukrainian Orthodox Autonomous Church

2. 1944 – 3 September 1945

   Bishop

   Vicar of Germany · Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 3 September 1945 – 1948

   Bishop of Paraguay

   Vicar of Brazil · Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 1948 – 22 December 1949

   Bishop of Argentina and Paraguay

   Orthodox Church in America

5. 22 December 1949 – 1950

   Bishop of Paraguay

   Vicar of Brazil · Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 1950 – 21 October 1953

   Bishop of Edmonton and Western Canada

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 21 October 1953 – 23 August 1957

   Bishop of Santiago, Chile and Peru

   Patriarchate of Moscow

8. 23 August 1957 – 5 September 1969

   Archbishop of Santiago and Chile

   Patriarchate of Moscow

9. 5 September 1969 – 2 July 1971

   Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina and Paraguay

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 7 November 1941 by:

• Aleksii Gromadskii Metropolitan of Volyn, 1882–1943
• Benjamin Novitskii Archbishop of Cheboksary and Chuvash, 1900–1976
• Damaskin Malyuta Former Bishop of Volyn and Podilsk, 1903–1946

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. Leontii Filippovich Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina and Paraguay consecrated 7 November 1941
2. Aleksii Gromadskii Metropolitan of Volyn, 1882–1943 consecrated 3 September 1922
3. George Yaroshevskii Metropolitan of Warsaw and Chełm, 1872–1923 consecrated 1 July 1906
4. Vladimir Bogoyavlenskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1848–1918 consecrated 13 June 1888
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 2

• 19 May 1957Agapit Kryzhanovskii Former Bishop of Goiana, cons. 1957
• 1962Auxentios Pastras Bishop of Gardiki, 1912–1994

Sources

Also in: Wikidata