Dmitri Royster

Life

Born

2 November 1923

Ordained deacon

1954

Ordained priest

1954

Consecrated bishop

22 June 1969

Made archbishop

1993

Retired

22 March 2009

Died

28 August 2011

Sees

1. 22 June 1969 – 1970

   Bishop of Berkeley

   Orthodox Church in America

2. 1970 – 19 October 1971

   Bishop of Washington

   Orthodox Church in America

3. 19 October 1971 – 1 July 1978

   Bishop of Hartford and New England

   Orthodox Church in America

4. 1 July 1978 – 1993

   Bishop of Dallas and the South

   Orthodox Church in America

5. 1993 – 22 March 2009

   Archbishop of Dallas and the South

   Orthodox Church in America

6. 22 March 2009 – 28 August 2011

   Former Archbishop of Dallas and the South

   Orthodox Church in America

Consecration

Consecrated 22 June 1969 by:

• Irinei Bekish Archbishop of New York and Metropolitan of America and Canada, 1892–1981

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 10 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Dmitri Royster Archbishop of Dallas and the South consecrated 22 June 1969
2. Irinei Bekish Archbishop of New York and Metropolitan of America and Canada, 1892–1981 consecrated 7 June 1953
3. Leontii Turkevich Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1876–1965 consecrated 10 July 1933
4. Platon Rozhdestvenskii Metropolitan of the Aleutian Islands and North America, 1866–1934 consecrated 3 June 1902
5. Feognost Lebedev Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1829–1903 consecrated 22 January 1867
6. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
7. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
8. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
9. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
10. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
11. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 5

• 10 February 1973Herman Swaiko Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1931–2022
• 15 November 1980Nathaniel Popp Archbishop of Detroit and the Romanian Episcopate, b. 1940
• 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
• 1 November 2008Jonah Paffhausen Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, b. 1959

Sources

• wikidata.org

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