Nikon Rklitskii

Life

Born

17 December 1892

Monastic tonsure

7 October 1941

Ordained deacon

14 October 1941

Ordained priest

4 December 1941

Made archimandrite

May 1946

Consecrated bishop

27 June 1948

Made archbishop

1959

Died

17 September 1976

Sees

1. 27 June 1948 – 1959

   Bishop of Florida

   ROCOR

2. 1959 – 17 September 1976

   Archbishop of Washington and Florida

   ROCOR

Consecration

Consecrated 27 June 1948 by:

• Vitalii Maksimenko Archbishop of Eastern America and Jersey City, 1873–1960
• Tikhon Troitsky Archbishop of San Francisco and Western America, 1883–1963
• Serapheim Ivanov Archbishop of Chicago, Detroit and the Midwest, 1897–1987

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. Nikon Rklitskii Archbishop of Washington and Florida consecrated 27 June 1948
2. Vitalii Maksimenko Archbishop of Eastern America and Jersey City, 1873–1960 consecrated 6 May 1934
3. Anthony Khrapovitsky Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1863–1936 consecrated 7 September 1897
4. Arsenii Bryantsev Archbishop of Kharkiv and Okhtyrka, 1839–1914 consecrated 17 May 1882
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 4

• 12 July 1951James Toombs Primate of the Orthodox American Church, 1887–1970
• 25 May 1953Averky Taushev Archbishop of Syracuse and Holy Trinity, 1906–1976
• 16 July 1967Paul Pavlov Archbishop of Sydney, Australia and New Zealand, 1927–1995
• 13 August 1967Laurus Shkurla Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York, 1928–2008

Sources

Also in: Wikidata