Nicholas Kosvar

Life

Born

19 December 1927

Ordained deacon

4 August 1950

Ordained priest

5 August 1950

Made archimandrite

25 February 1965

Consecrated bishop

28 February 1965

Made archbishop

1987

Made metropolitan

2000

Died

30 January 2006

Sees

1. 28 February 1965 – 1987

   Bishop of Prešov

   Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia

2. 1987 – 14 April 2000

   Archbishop of Prešov

   Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia

3. 14 April 2000 – 30 January 2006

   Archbishop of Prešov and Metropolitan of All the Czech Lands and Slovakia

   Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia

Consecration

Consecrated 28 February 1965 by:

• Dorotheos Filipp Metropolitan of Prague and All the Czech Lands and Slovakia, 1913–1999
• Cyprian Zyornov Archbishop of Berlin and Central Europe, 1911–1987
• Metod Millý Bishop of Michalovce, 1883–1966

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. Nicholas Kosvar Archbishop of Prešov and Metropolitan of All the Czech Lands and Slovakia consecrated 28 February 1965
2. Dorotheos Filipp Metropolitan of Prague and All the Czech Lands and Slovakia, 1913–1999 consecrated 12 June 1955
3. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
4. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
5. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
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 3

• 14 November 1965Cyril Mučička Bishop of Michalovce, 1929–1979
• 22 May 1983John Holoňa Archbishop of Prešov, 1937–2012
• 21 June 1998Symeon Jakovlevič Archbishop of Brno and Olomouc, b. 1926

Sources

Also in: Wikidata