Basil Osborne

Life

Born

12 April 1938

Ordained deacon

1969

Ordained priest

1973

Consecrated bishop

7 March 1993

Retired

12 October 2009

Sees

1. 7 March 1993 – 9 May 2006

   Bishop of Sergiev

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 9 May 2006 – 12 October 2009

   Bishop of Amphipolis

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

3. 12 October 2009 – 12 February 2010

   Former Bishop of Amphipolis

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

4. 12 February 2010 – present

   Layperson

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 7 March 1993 by:

• Anthony Bloom Metropolitan of Sourozh, 1914–2003
• Gregory Theocharous Archbishop of Thyateira and Great Britain, 1928–2019
• Anatolii Kuznetsov Archbishop of Kerch, 1930–2024
• Kallistos Ware Metropolitan of Diokleia, 1934–2022

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. Basil Osborne Bishop of Amphipolis consecrated 7 March 1993
2. Anatolii Kuznetsov Archbishop of Kerch, 1930–2024 consecrated 3 September 1972
3. Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978 consecrated 10 July 1960
4. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
5. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
6. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
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 1

• 14 January 2002Hilarion Alfeyev Metropolitan of Budapest and Hungary, b. 1966

Sources

Also in: Wikidata