Rostislav Gont

Life

Born

1978

Consecrated bishop

18 November 2012

Made archbishop

18 November 2012

Made metropolitan

11 January 2014

Sees

1. 18 November 2012 – 11 January 2014

   Archbishop of Prešov and Slovakia

   Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia

2. 11 January 2014 – present

   Metropolitan of Prešov and Archbishop of All the Czech Lands and Slovakia

   Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia

Consecration

Consecrated 18 November 2012 by:

• Christopher Pulec Metropolitan of Prague and All the Czech Lands and Slovakia, b. 1953
• Juraj Stránský Archbishop of Michalovce and Košice, b. 1979
• Theodore Mamasuyev Metropolitan of Mukachevo and Uzhhorod, b. 1966
• Porfirije Perić Archbishop of Peć, Metropolitan of Belgrade and Karlovci, Patriarch of Serbia, b. 1961
• Paisjusz Martyniuk Archbishop of Przemyśl and Gorlice, b. 1969
• Joacheim Hrdý Metropolitan of Beroun, b. 1973

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. Rostislav Gont Metropolitan of Prešov and Archbishop of All the Czech Lands and Slovakia consecrated 18 November 2012
2. Juraj Stránský Archbishop of Michalovce and Košice, b. 1979 consecrated 30 September 2007
3. Feodosii Vasnev Metropolitan of Tambov and Rasskazovo, b. 1961 consecrated 21 April 2002
4. Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003 consecrated 23 May 1963
5. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
6. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
7. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
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

Bishops he consecrated 2

• 14 March 2015Michael Dandár Archbishop of Prague, b. 1947
• 24 June 2018Isihije Rogić Bishop of Valjevo, b. 1965