Gabriel Chemodakov

Life

Born

2 June 1961

Monastic tonsure

March 1996

Ordained deacon

31 March 1996

Ordained priest

7 April 1996

Consecrated bishop

7 July 1996

Made archbishop

17 May 2011

Sees

1. 7 July 1996 – 5 October 1996

   Bishop of Brisbane

   Vicar of Sydney, Australia and New Zealand · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 5 October 1996 – 16 May 2008

   Bishop of Manhattan

   Vicar of Eastern America · Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 16 May 2008 – 17 May 2011

   Bishop of Montréal and Canada

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 17 May 2011 – present

   Archbishop of Montréal and Canada

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 18 December 2024 – 4 May 2026

   Locum tenens of Chicago and the Midwest

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 7 July 1996 by:

• Vitalii Ustinov Metropolitan of New York and Eastern America, 1910–2006
• Anthony Medvedev Archbishop of San Francisco and Western America, 1908–2000
• Laurus Shkurla Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York, 1928–2008
• Hilarion Kapral Metropolitan of New York and Eastern America, 1948–2022
• Chrysostom Gonzalez Metropolitan of Etna, 1943–2019
• Auxentios Chapman Bishop of Etna and Portland, cons. 1991

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. Gabriel Chemodakov Archbishop of Montréal and Canada consecrated 7 July 1996
2. Laurus Shkurla Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York, 1928–2008 consecrated 13 August 1967
3. Averky Taushev Archbishop of Syracuse and Holy Trinity, 1906–1976 consecrated 25 May 1953
4. Vitalii Maksimenko Archbishop of Eastern America and Jersey City, 1873–1960 consecrated 6 May 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 7

• 28 May 1998Alexander Mileant Bishop of Buenos Aires and South America, 1938–2005
• 7 September 2008Feodosii Ivashchenko Bishop of Manhattan, b. 1964
• 7 December 2008George Schaefer Archbishop of Sydney, Australia and New Zealand, b. 1950
• 10 December 2008Jerome Shaw Bishop of Manhattan, b. 1946
• 29 June 2014Nicholas Olkhovskii Metropolitan of New York and Eastern America, b. 1974
• 12 February 2019Luke Muryanka Bishop of Syracuse, b. 1951
• 10 December 2021Job Bandmann Bishop of Stuttgart, b. 1982

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata