Tikhon Fitzgerald

Life

Born

14 November 1932

Ordained deacon

December 1971

Ordained priest

1978

Made archimandrite

1987

Monastic tonsure

24 March 1987

Consecrated bishop

30 May 1987

Retired

20 March 2007

Died

22 January 2023

Sees

1. 30 May 1987 – 20 March 2007

   Bishop of San Francisco and the West

   Orthodox Church in America

2. 20 March 2007 – 22 January 2023

   Former Bishop of San Francisco and the West

   Orthodox Church in America

Consecration

Consecrated 30 May 1987 by:

• Theodosius Lazor Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1933–2020

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 10 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Tikhon Fitzgerald Bishop of San Francisco and the West consecrated 30 May 1987
2. Theodosius Lazor Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1933–2020 consecrated 6 May 1967
3. Silvester Haruns Archbishop of Montréal and Canada, 1914–2000 consecrated 27 April 1952
4. Vladimir Tikhonitskii Metropolitan of Białystok, 1873–1959 consecrated 3 June 1907
5. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
6. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
7. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
8. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
9. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
10. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
11. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 2

• 22 April 2001Nicholas Soraich Former Bishop of Sitka and Alaska, b. 1949
• 1 May 2004Benjamin Peterson Archbishop of San Francisco, Los Angeles and the West, b. 1954

Sources

• wikidata.org

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