Gabriel Pinto da Rocha

Life

Born

1938

Ordained deacon

1968

Monastic tonsure

17 June 1978

Consecrated bishop

18 June 1978

Made metropolitan

18 June 1978

Died

18 February 1997

Sees

1. 18 June 1978 – 1984

   Metropolitan of Braga and Lisbon

   Church of the True Orthodox Christians of Greece

2. 1984 – 1990

   Metropolitan of Lisbon and Portugal

   Church of the True Orthodox Christians of Greece

3. 1990 – 18 February 1997

   Metropolitan of Lisbon and Portugal

   Church of Poland

Consecration

Consecrated 18 June 1978 by:

• Auxentios Pastras Bishop of Gardiki, 1912–1994
• Gerontios I Marioles Metropolitan of Peiraeus and Salamina, 1921–2008
• Anthony Metropolitan of Megora

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. Gabriel Pinto da Rocha Metropolitan of Lisbon and Portugal consecrated 18 June 1978
2. Auxentios Pastras Bishop of Gardiki, 1912–1994 consecrated 1962
3. Leontii Filippovich Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina and Paraguay, 1904–1971 consecrated 7 November 1941
4. Aleksii Gromadskii Metropolitan of Volyn, 1882–1943 consecrated 3 September 1922
5. George Yaroshevskii Metropolitan of Warsaw and Chełm, 1872–1923 consecrated 1 July 1906
6. Vladimir Bogoyavlenskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1848–1918 consecrated 13 June 1888
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

Bishops he consecrated 1

• 9 September 1984Evloghios Hessler Archbishop of Milan, 1935–2019