Nicholas Olkhovskii

Life

Born

17 December 1974

Ordained deacon

12 June 2006

Ordained priest

1 August 2012

Monastic tonsure

4 April 2014

Made archimandrite

27 April 2014

Consecrated bishop

29 June 2014

Made metropolitan

14 September 2022

Sees

1. 29 June 2014 – 14 September 2022

   Bishop of Manhattan

   Vicar of Eastern America · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 14 September 2022 – present

   Metropolitan of New York and Eastern America

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 29 June 2014 by:

• Hilarion Kapral Metropolitan of New York and Eastern America, 1948–2022
• Mark Arndt Metropolitan of Berlin and Germany, b. 1941
• Cyril Dmitriev Archbishop of San Francisco and Western America, b. 1954
• Justinian Ovchinnikov Archbishop of Elista and Kalmykia, b. 1961
• Gabriel Chemodakov Archbishop of Montréal and Canada, b. 1961
• Michael Donskov Archbishop of Meudon, b. 1943
• Peter Lukyanov Archbishop of Chicago and the Midwest, 1948–2024
• John Bērziņš Bishop of Caracas and South America, b. 1957
• George Schaefer Archbishop of Sydney, Australia and New Zealand, b. 1950
• Feodosii Ivashchenko Bishop of Manhattan, b. 1964
• Panteleimon Shatov Bishop of Vereya, b. 1950
• Jonah Cherepanov Archbishop of Obukhiv, b. 1971
• Nicholas Soraich Former Bishop of Sitka and Alaska, b. 1949

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. Nicholas Olkhovskii Metropolitan of New York and Eastern America consecrated 29 June 2014
2. Nicholas Soraich Former Bishop of Sitka and Alaska, b. 1949 consecrated 22 April 2001
3. Herman Swaiko Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1931–2022 consecrated 10 February 1973
4. Silvester Haruns Archbishop of Montréal and Canada, 1914–2000 consecrated 27 April 1952
5. Vladimir Tikhonitskii Metropolitan of Białystok, 1873–1959 consecrated 3 June 1907
6. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
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 3

• 12 February 2019Luke Muryanka Bishop of Syracuse, b. 1951
• 6 November 2019James Corazza Bishop of Sonora, b. 1958
• 10 December 2021Job Bandmann Bishop of Stuttgart, b. 1982

Sources

Also in: Wikidata