Cyprian Borisevich

Life

Born

15 August 1903

Ordained priest

1928

Monastic tonsure

1961

Consecrated bishop

1961

Made archbishop

1970

Died

14 December 1980

Sees

1. 1961 – 1964

   Bishop of Washington

   Vicar of the Metropolitan · Orthodox Church in America

2. 1964 – 1970

   Bishop of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania

   Orthodox Church in America

3. 1970 – 14 December 1980

   Archbishop of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania

   Orthodox Church in America

Consecration

Consecrated 1961 by:

• Leontii Turkevich Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1876–1965

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. Cyprian Borisevich Archbishop of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania consecrated 1961
2. Leontii Turkevich Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1876–1965 consecrated 10 July 1933
3. Platon Rozhdestvenskii Metropolitan of the Aleutian Islands and North America, 1866–1934 consecrated 3 June 1902
4. Feognost Lebedev Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1829–1903 consecrated 22 January 1867
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 3

• 6 May 1967Theodosius Lazor Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1933–2020
• 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

Sources

Also in: Wikidata