George Schaefer

Life

Born

25 May 1950

Monastic tonsure

1979

Ordained deacon

21 November 1986

Ordained priest

12 April 1987

Made archimandrite

5 September 2005

Consecrated bishop

7 December 2008

Made archbishop

12 July 2024

Sees

1. 7 December 2008 – 7 October 2014

   Bishop of Mayfield

   Vicar of Eastern America · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 7 October 2014 – 21 September 2022

   Bishop of Canberra

   Vicar of Australia and New Zealand · Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 21 September 2022 – 12 July 2024

   Bishop of Sydney, Australia and New Zealand

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 12 July 2024 – present

   Archbishop of Sydney, Australia and New Zealand

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 7 December 2008 by:

• Gabriel Chemodakov Archbishop of Montréal and Canada, b. 1961
• Peter Lukyanov Archbishop of Chicago and the Midwest, 1948–2024
• John Bērziņš Bishop of Caracas and South America, b. 1957

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 12 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. George Schaefer Archbishop of Sydney, Australia and New Zealand consecrated 7 December 2008
2. Peter Lukyanov Archbishop of Chicago and the Midwest, 1948–2024 consecrated 12 July 2003
3. Laurus Shkurla Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York, 1928–2008 consecrated 13 August 1967
4. Averky Taushev Archbishop of Syracuse and Holy Trinity, 1906–1976 consecrated 25 May 1953
5. Vitalii Maksimenko Archbishop of Eastern America and Jersey City, 1873–1960 consecrated 6 May 1934
6. Anthony Khrapovitsky Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1863–1936 consecrated 7 September 1897
7. Arsenii Bryantsev Archbishop of Kharkiv and Okhtyrka, 1839–1914 consecrated 17 May 1882
8. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
9. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
10. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
11. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
12. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
13. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 1

• 29 June 2014Nicholas Olkhovskii Metropolitan of New York and Eastern America, b. 1974

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata