Theodosius Lazor

Life

Born

27 October 1933

Monastic tonsure

1961

Ordained deacon

1961

Ordained priest

1961

Consecrated bishop

6 May 1967

Made metropolitan

25 October 1977

Retired

2 April 2002

Died

19 October 2020

Sees

1. 6 May 1967 – 1972

   Bishop of Sitka

   Orthodox Church in America

2. 1972 – 25 October 1977

   Bishop of Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania

   Orthodox Church in America

3. 25 October 1977 – 2 April 2002

   Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada

   Orthodox Church in America

4. 2 April 2002 – 19 October 2020

   Former Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada

   Orthodox Church in America

Consecration

Consecrated 6 May 1967 by:

• Irinei Bekish Archbishop of New York and Metropolitan of America and Canada, 1892–1981
• Nikon de Greve Archbishop of Brooklyn, 1895–1983
• Silvester Haruns Archbishop of Montréal and Canada, 1914–2000
• Cyprian Borisevich Archbishop of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, 1903–1980
• Silas Koskinas Metropolitan of Saranta Ecclesies, 1919–2000
• Mark Lipa Bishop of Levkada, 1919–1982

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. Theodosius Lazor Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada consecrated 6 May 1967
2. Silvester Haruns Archbishop of Montréal and Canada, 1914–2000 consecrated 27 April 1952
3. Vladimir Tikhonitskii Metropolitan of Białystok, 1873–1959 consecrated 3 June 1907
4. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
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 11

• 19 October 1971Serapheim Sigrist Bishop of Sendai, b. 1941
• 10 February 1973Herman Swaiko Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1931–2022
• 13 May 1973Gregory Afonsky Former Archbishop of Sitka and Alaska, 1925–2008
• 17 October 1978Boris Geeza Bishop of Chicago and the Midwest, 1923–2000
• 12 January 1980Basil Rodzianko Bishop of San Francisco and the West, 1915–1999
• 15 November 1980Nathaniel Popp Archbishop of Detroit and the Romanian Episcopate, b. 1940
• 30 May 1987Tikhon Fitzgerald Bishop of San Francisco and the West, 1932–2023
• 13 June 1987Seraphim Storheim Archbishop of Ottawa and Canada, b. 1946
• 22 April 2001Nicholas Soraich Former Bishop of Sitka and Alaska, b. 1949
• 25 May 2002Nikon Liolin Archbishop of Boston, New England and the Albanian Archdiocese, 1945–2019
• 14 July 2002Nicholas Condrea Metropolitan of the Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese of America and Canada, b. 1967

Sources

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