Orthodox Hierarchs

ROCOR

John Legky

Иоанн

Bishop of Rockland · 1907–1995

Born Ivan Savvich Legky (Иван Саввич Легкий)

Life

Born
12 May 1907
Monastic tonsure
1990
Consecrated bishop
28 August 1990
Died
9 March 1995

Sees

  1. 28 August 1990 – 2 October 1994

    Bishop of Rockland

    Vicar of Eastern America · ROCOR

  2. 2 October 1994 – 9 March 1995

    Former Bishop of Rockland

    Vicar of Eastern America · ROCOR

Consecration

Consecrated 28 August 1990 by:

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 11 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

  1. John Legky Bishop of Rockland consecrated 28 August 1990
  2. Laurus Shkurla Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York, 1928–2008 consecrated 13 August 1967
  3. Averky Taushev Archbishop of Syracuse and Holy Trinity, 1906–1976 consecrated 25 May 1953
  4. Vitalii Maksimenko Archbishop of Eastern America and Jersey City, 1873–1960 consecrated 6 May 1934
  5. Anthony Khrapovitsky Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1863–1936 consecrated 7 September 1897
  6. Arsenii Bryantsev Archbishop of Kharkiv and Okhtyrka, 1839–1914 consecrated 17 May 1882
  7. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
  8. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
  9. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
  10. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
  11. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
  12. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Sources

Also in: Wikidata

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