Laurus Shkurla

Life

Born

1 January 1928

Monastic tonsure

19 March 1948

Ordained deacon

14 January 1950

Ordained priest

27 June 1954

Made archimandrite

17 April 1966

Consecrated bishop

13 August 1967

Made archbishop

1981

Made metropolitan

October 2001

Died

16 March 2008

Sees

1. 13 August 1967 – 1 October 1974

   Bishop of Manhattan

   Vicar of Eastern America · ROCOR

2. 1 October 1974 – 12 October 1976

   Bishop of Rochester

   Vicar of Syracuse and Holy Trinity · ROCOR

3. 18 July 1976 – 12 October 1976

   Locum tenens of Syracuse and Holy Trinity

   ROCOR

4. 12 October 1976 – 1981

   Bishop of Syracuse and Holy Trinity

   ROCOR

5. 1981 – October 2001

   Archbishop of Syracuse and Holy Trinity

   ROCOR

6. October 2001 – 16 March 2008

   Metropolitan of New York and Eastern America

   ROCOR

Consecration

Consecrated 13 August 1967 by:

• Filaret Voznesenskii Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York, 1903–1985
• Nikon Rklitskii Archbishop of Washington and Florida, 1892–1976
• Averky Taushev Archbishop of Syracuse and Holy Trinity, 1906–1976
• Cyril Yonchev Archbishop of Pittsburgh, Western Pennsylvania and the Bulgarian Diocese, 1920–2007
• Anthony Medvedev Archbishop of San Francisco and Western America, 1908–2000

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. Laurus Shkurla Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York consecrated 13 August 1967
2. Averky Taushev Archbishop of Syracuse and Holy Trinity, 1906–1976 consecrated 25 May 1953
3. Vitalii Maksimenko Archbishop of Eastern America and Jersey City, 1873–1960 consecrated 6 May 1934
4. Anthony Khrapovitsky Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1863–1936 consecrated 7 September 1897
5. Arsenii Bryantsev Archbishop of Kharkiv and Okhtyrka, 1839–1914 consecrated 17 May 1882
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 10

• 12 July 1974Alipii Gamanovich Former Archbishop of Chicago, 1926–2019
• 30 November 1980Mark Arndt Metropolitan of Berlin and Germany, b. 1941
• 29 August 1983Innocent Petrov Bishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina and Paraguay, 1903–1987
• 10 December 1984Hilarion Kapral Metropolitan of New York and Eastern America, 1948–2022
• 28 August 1990John Legky Bishop of Rockland, 1907–1995
• 7 June 1992Cyril Dmitriev Archbishop of San Francisco and Western America, b. 1954
• 7 July 1996Gabriel Chemodakov Archbishop of Montréal and Canada, b. 1961
• 28 May 1998Alexander Mileant Bishop of Buenos Aires and South America, 1938–2005
• 1 May 2001Agapit Gorachek Archbishop of Stuttgart, 1955–2020
• 12 July 2003Peter Lukyanov Archbishop of Chicago and the Midwest, 1948–2024

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata