Jonathan Kopolovich

Life

Born

8 June 1912

Ordained deacon

21 November 1933

Ordained priest

19 April 1936

Monastic tonsure

12 November 1965

Made archimandrite

14 November 1965

Consecrated bishop

28 November 1965

Made archbishop

7 October 1967

Retired

12 May 1987

Died

21 May 1990

Sees

1. 28 November 1965 – 7 October 1967

   Bishop of Tegel

   Vicar of Berlin and Central Europe · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1966 – 1967

   Locum tenens of Berlin and Central Europe

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 1966 – 1967

   Locum tenens of Vienna and Austria

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 7 October 1967 – 1970

   Archbishop of New York and the Aleutian Islands

   Exarch of North and South America · Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 1970 – 1972

   Archbishop of Tambov and Michurinsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 1972 – 12 May 1987

   Archbishop of Chișinău and Moldova

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 12 May 1987 – 21 May 1990

   Former Archbishop of Chișinău and Moldova

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 28 November 1965 by:

• Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970
• Pimen Izvekov Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1910–1990
• Joasaph Lelyukhin Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1903–1966
• Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978
• Cyprian Zyornov Archbishop of Berlin and Central Europe, 1911–1987
• Anthony Melnikov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1924–1986
• Leontii Gudimov Metropolitan of Donetsk and Slovyansk, 1928–1992
• Filaret Denysenko Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus'-Ukraine, b. 1929
• Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 9 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Jonathan Kopolovich Archbishop of Chișinău and Moldova consecrated 28 November 1965
2. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
3. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
4. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
5. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
6. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
7. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
8. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
9. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
10. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 3

• 12 December 1965John Snychyov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Ladoga, 1927–1995
• 26 December 1965Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• 2 February 1969Mark Shavykin Bishop of Ladoga, 1910–1989

Sources

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