Nicholas Smisko

Life

Born

23 February 1936

Ordained priest

11 January 1959

Made archimandrite

23 January 1977

Monastic tonsure

16 September 1979

Consecrated bishop

13 March 1983

Made metropolitan

24 November 1997

Died

13 March 2011

Sees

1. 13 March 1983 – 25 November 1984

   Bishop of Amissos

   Vicar of America · Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 25 November 1984 – 24 November 1997

   Bishop of Amissos and Primate of the Carpatho-Russian Diocese of the USA

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

3. 24 November 1997 – 13 March 2011

   Metropolitan and Primate of the Carpatho-Russian Diocese of the USA

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 13 March 1983 by:

• Iakovos Coucouzes Former Archbishop of North and South America, 1911–2005
• Andrew Kuschak Metropolitan of Evkarpia, 1901–1986
• Philotheos Karamitsos Metropolitan of Meloa, 1924–2017
• John Martin Bishop of Nyssa, 1931–1984

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. Nicholas Smisko Metropolitan of Amissos and Primate of the Carpatho-Russian Diocese of the USA consecrated 13 March 1983
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

Bishops he consecrated 2

• 13 December 2005Andrew Peshko Bishop of Toronto, b. 1972
• 10 May 2008Daniel Zelinskyi Archbishop of Pamphilos, b. 1972

Sources

Also in: Wikidata