Orthodox Hierarchs

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Afanasii Martos

Афанасий

Archbishop of Buenos Aires and Argentina · 1904–1983

Born Anton Vikentievich Martos (Антон Викентьевич Мартос)

Life

Born
21 September 1904
Monastic tonsure
4 January 1927
Ordained deacon
29 January 1928
Ordained priest
March 1929
Made archimandrite
1938
Consecrated bishop
8 March 1942
Made archbishop
August 1957
Died
3 November 1983

Sees

  1. 8 March 1942 – 1946

    Bishop of Vitebsk

    ROCOR

  2. 1946 – 1950

    Bishop of Hamburg and Northern Germany

    ROCOR

  3. 1950

    Bishop of Melbourne

    Vicar of Australia · ROCOR

  4. 1950 – 1953

    Bishop of Melbourne

    Vicar of Brisbane · ROCOR

  5. 1953 – 1954

    Bishop of Northern Africa

    ROCOR

  6. 1954 – 1956

    Bishop of Edmonton

    ROCOR

  7. 1956 – August 1957

    Bishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina and Paraguay

    ROCOR

  8. August 1957 – 1969

    Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina and Paraguay

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  9. 1969 – 1970

    Archbishop of Australia and New Zealand

    ROCOR

  10. 1970 – 1971

    Former Archbishop of Australia and New Zealand

    ROCOR

  11. 1971 – 3 November 1983

    Archbishop of Buenos Aires and Argentina

    ROCOR

Consecration

Consecrated 8 March 1942 by:

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. Afanasii Martos Archbishop of Buenos Aires and Argentina consecrated 8 March 1942
  2. Panteleimon Rudyk Archbishop of Edmonton and Canada, 1898–1968 consecrated 27 March 1941
  3. Sergii Stragorodskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1867–1944 consecrated 25 February 1901
  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 2

Sources

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