Joseph Grebenka/Grebinko/Grebinka

Life

Born

6 July 1932

Ordained deacon

1967

Ordained priest

1969

Monastic tonsure

20 November 2008

Consecrated bishop

21 November 2008

Sees

1. 21 November 2008 – present

   Bishop of Washington

   Vicar of the President of the Synod · ROCOR (Agafangel)

Consecration

Consecrated 21 November 2008 by:

• Agafangel Pashkovskii Metropolitan of New York and Eastern America, Archbishop of Taurida and Odessa, b. 1956
• Sofronii Musienko Bishop of Saint Petersburg and Northern Russia, b. 1970
• George Kravchenko Archbishop of Chișinău and Moldova, b. 1971
• Ambrose Baird Bishop of Methoni, b. 1949
• Andronik Kotlyarov Bishop of Ottawa and North America, b. 1951

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. Joseph Grebenka/Grebinko/Grebinka Bishop of Washington consecrated 21 November 2008
2. Agafangel Pashkovskii Metropolitan of New York and Eastern America, Archbishop of Taurida and Odessa, b. 1956 consecrated 27 March 1994
3. Valentine Rusantsov Metropolitan of Suzdal and Vladimir, 1939–2012 consecrated 10 February 1991
4. Anthony Bartoshevich Archbishop of Geneva and Western Europe, 1910–1993 consecrated 5 May 1957
5. John Maximovich Archbishop of San Francisco and Western America, 1896–1966 consecrated 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