Basil Essey

Life

Born

26 November 1948

Ordained deacon

30 September 1979

Ordained priest

27 January 1980

Made archimandrite

9 October 1988

Consecrated bishop

31 May 1992

Retired

17 October 2022

Sees

1. 31 May 1992 – 9 October 2003

   Bishop of Enfeh Al-Koura

   Patriarchate of Antioch

2. 9 October 2003 – 17 October 2022

   Bishop of Wichita and Mid-America

   Patriarchate of Antioch

3. 17 October 2022 – present

   Former Bishop of Wichita and Mid-America

   Patriarchate of Antioch

Consecration

Consecrated 31 May 1992 by:

• Philip Saliba Metropolitan of New York and North America, 1931–2014
• Elias Aude Metropolitan of Beirut and Dependencies, b. 1941
• Antoun Khoury Bishop of Miami and the Southeast, 1931–2017

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 4 generations back to Gerasimos I Protopapas; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Basil Essey Bishop of Wichita and Mid-America consecrated 31 May 1992
2. Philip Saliba Metropolitan of New York and North America, 1931–2014 consecrated 14 August 1966
3. Theodosios VI Abourjaily Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, 1887–1970 consecrated 30 December 1923
4. Gregory IV Haddad Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, 1859–1928 consecrated 10 May 1890
5. Gerasimos I Protopapas Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem and All Palestine, 1839–1897 consecrated 11 December 1877

Bishops he consecrated 1

• 25 May 2002Nikon Liolin Archbishop of Boston, New England and the Albanian Archdiocese, 1945–2019