Silvester Gayevskii

Life

Born

23 November 1876

Consecrated bishop

16 May 1942

Made archbishop

1953

Died

10 September 1975

Sees

1. 16 May 1942 – 29 December 1953

   Bishop of Lubny

   Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (Polikarpovtsy)

2. 29 December 1953 – 1965

   Archbishop of Melbourne, Australia and New Zealand

   Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (Polikarpovtsy)

3. 1965 – 10 September 1975

   Archbishop of Melbourne, Australia and New Zealand

   Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church in Diaspora

Consecration

Consecrated 16 May 1942 by:

• Nikanor Abramovich Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church Abroad, 1883–1969
• Igor Huba Bishop of Uman, d. 1966
• Michael Khoroshii/Khoroshoi Archbishop of Toronto and Eastern Canada, 1885–1977

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 10 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Silvester Gayevskii Archbishop of Melbourne, Australia and New Zealand consecrated 16 May 1942
2. Nikanor Abramovich Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church Abroad, 1883–1969 consecrated 9 February 1942
3. Alexander Inozemtsev Metropolitan of Pinsk and Poliske, 1887–1948 consecrated 4 June 1922
4. George Yaroshevskii Metropolitan of Warsaw and Chełm, 1872–1923 consecrated 1 July 1906
5. Vladimir Bogoyavlenskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1848–1918 consecrated 13 June 1888
6. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
7. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
8. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
9. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
10. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
11. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 2

• 23 June 1942Vladimir Malets Bishop of Detroit, d. 1967
• 28 August 1955Donat Burtan Archbishop of Australia and New Zealand, 1894–1971