Jonah Paffhausen

Life

Born

20 October 1959

Ordained deacon

1994

Ordained priest

1994

Monastic tonsure

1995

Elected bishop

4 September 2008

Consecrated bishop

1 November 2008

Made metropolitan

13 November 2008

Retired

7 July 2012

Sees

1. 1 November 2008 – 13 November 2008

   Bishop of Fort Worth

   Orthodox Church in America

2. 13 November 2008 – 7 July 2012

   Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada

   Orthodox Church in America

3. 7 July 2012 – 15 June 2015

   Former Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada

   Orthodox Church in America

4. 15 June 2015 – present

   Former Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada

   ROCOR/Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 1 November 2008 by:

• Dmitri Royster Archbishop of Dallas and the South, 1923–2011
• Tikhon Mollard Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, b. 1966
• Benjamin Peterson Archbishop of San Francisco, Los Angeles and the West, b. 1954
• Alejo Pacheco y Vera Archbishop of Mexico City and the Exarchate of Mexico, b. 1954

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 11 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Jonah Paffhausen Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada consecrated 1 November 2008
2. Alejo Pacheco y Vera Archbishop of Mexico City and the Exarchate of Mexico, b. 1954 consecrated 28 May 2005
3. Herman Swaiko Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1931–2022 consecrated 10 February 1973
4. Silvester Haruns Archbishop of Montréal and Canada, 1914–2000 consecrated 27 April 1952
5. Vladimir Tikhonitskii Metropolitan of Białystok, 1873–1959 consecrated 3 June 1907
6. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
7. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
8. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
9. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
10. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
11. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
12. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 6

• 26 April 2009Tikhon Zaitsev Archbishop of Ruza, b. 1967
• 27 June 2009Melchisedek Pleska Bishop of Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania, b. 1942
• 1 October 2009Irénée Rochon Archbishop of Ottawa and Canada, b. 1948
• 8 May 2010Michael Dahulich Archbishop of New York and New Jersey, b. 1950
• 2 May 2011Matthias Moriak Bishop of Chicago and the Midwest, b. 1949
• 5 May 2012Alexander Golitzin Archbishop of Dallas and the Bulgarian Diocese, b. 1948

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata