Sofronii Bishara/Bashira/Beshara

Life

Born

1888

Consecrated bishop

26 May 1928

Died

8 October 1940

Sees

1. 26 May 1928 – 8 October 1940

   Bishop of Los Angeles

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 26 May 1928 by:

• Evfimii Ofiesh Archbishop of Brooklyn, 1880–1971
• Emmanuel Abou-Hatab Bishop of Montréal, 1890–1933
• Elias Dip Metropolitan of Tyre and Sidon, d. 1965

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. Sofronii Bishara/Bashira/Beshara Bishop of Los Angeles consecrated 26 May 1928
2. Emmanuel Abou-Hatab Bishop of Montréal, 1890–1933 consecrated 11 September 1927
3. Aftimios Ofiesh Former Archbishop of Brooklyn, 1880–1966 consecrated 13 May 1917
4. Innocent Pustynskii Archbishop of Tashkent and Türkıstan, 1868–1937 consecrated 14 December 1903
5. Vladimir Bogoyavlenskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1848–1918 consecrated 13 June 1888
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 2

• 27 September 1932Ignatius Nicholas/Nicols Bishop of Washington and America, 1877–1947
• 10 February 1934Christopher Kontogeorgios Metropolitan of Pentapolis, 1895–1951