Victorin Ursache

Life

Born

24 July 1912

Monastic tonsure

1937

Ordained deacon

1938

Ordained priest

1938

Made archimandrite

1942

Consecrated bishop

7 August 1966

Made archbishop

11 July 1973

Retired

22 January 2001

Died

16 July 2001

Sees

1. 7 August 1966 – 11 July 1973

   Bishop of America and Canada

   Patriarchate of Romania

2. 11 July 1973 – 22 January 2001

   Archbishop of America and Canada

   Patriarchate of Romania

3. 22 January 2001 – 16 July 2001

   Former Archbishop of America and Canada

   Patriarchate of Romania

Consecration

Consecrated 7 August 1966 by:

• Iakovos Coucouzes Former Archbishop of North and South America, 1911–2005

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. Victorin Ursache Archbishop of America and Canada consecrated 7 August 1966
2. Iakovos Coucouzes Former Archbishop of North and South America, 1911–2005 consecrated 6 February 1955
3. Maximos Tsaouses Metropolitan of Sardis, 1914–1986 consecrated 16 June 1946
4. Polycarp Demetriades Metropolitan of Prousa, 1892–1953 consecrated 25 December 1927
5. Alexander Nemolovsky Metropolitan of Brussels and Belgium, 1876–1960 consecrated 28 November 1909
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