Alexander Golitzin

Life

Born

1948

Ordained deacon

January 1982

Ordained priest

1984

Monastic tonsure

1986

Consecrated bishop

5 May 2012

Made archbishop

March 2017

Sees

1. 5 May 2012 – 2016

   Bishop of Toledo and the Bulgarian Diocese

   Orthodox Church in America

2. 2012

   Locum tenens of Washington, DC

   Orthodox Church in America

3. 2013 – 2014

   Locum tenens of Chicago

   Orthodox Church in America

4. 2016 – March 2017

   Bishop of Dallas and the Bulgarian Diocese

   Orthodox Church in America

5. March 2017 – present

   Archbishop of Dallas and the Bulgarian Diocese

   Orthodox Church in America

Consecration

Consecrated 5 May 2012 by:

• Jonah Paffhausen Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, b. 1959
• Nathaniel Popp Archbishop of Detroit and the Romanian Episcopate, b. 1940
• Nikon Liolin Archbishop of Boston, New England and the Albanian Archdiocese, 1945–2019
• Tikhon Mollard Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, b. 1966
• Benjamin Peterson Archbishop of San Francisco, Los Angeles and the West, b. 1954
• Melchisedek Pleska Bishop of Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania, b. 1942
• Michael Dahulich Archbishop of New York and New Jersey, b. 1950
• Matthias Moriak Bishop of Chicago and the Midwest, b. 1949
• Irineu Duvlea Bishop of Dearborn Heights, b. 1962
• Mark Maymon Archbishop of Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania, b. 1958
• Irénée Rochon Archbishop of Ottawa and Canada, b. 1948

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. Alexander Golitzin Archbishop of Dallas and the Bulgarian Diocese consecrated 5 May 2012
2. Nathaniel Popp Archbishop of Detroit and the Romanian Episcopate, b. 1940 consecrated 15 November 1980
3. Cyril Yonchev Archbishop of Pittsburgh, Western Pennsylvania and the Bulgarian Diocese, 1920–2007 consecrated 9 August 1964
4. John Maximovich Archbishop of San Francisco and Western America, 1896–1966 consecrated 1934
5. Anthony Khrapovitsky Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1863–1936 consecrated 7 September 1897
6. Arsenii Bryantsev Archbishop of Kharkiv and Okhtyrka, 1839–1914 consecrated 17 May 1882
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 4

• 27 December 2014Paul Gassios Archbishop of Chicago and the Midwest, 1953–2022
• 1 February 2020Andrew Hoarşte Bishop of Cleveland, b. 1982
• 8 November 2020Timothy Torres Esquivel Bishop of Assos, b. 1969
• 29 June 2021Gerasim Eliel Bishop of Fort Worth, b. 1961