Syargei Akhatenka

Life

Born

12 March 1890

Monastic tonsure

28 June 1919

Ordained deacon

1925

Ordained priest

1925

Made archimandrite

1932

Consecrated bishop

1 August 1943

Made archbishop

20 December 1949

Died

2 October 1971

Sees

1. 1 August 1943 – 20 December 1949

   Bishop of Melitopol

   Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church

2. 20 December 1949 – 2 October 1971

   Archbishop of Minsk and Belarus

   Belorussian Autocephalous Orthodox Church

Consecration

Consecrated 1 August 1943 by:

• Michael Khoroshii/Khoroshoi Archbishop of Toronto and Eastern Canada, 1885–1977
• Genadii Shiprikovich/Shiprikevich Bishop of Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhya, 1892–1972
• Vladimir Malets Bishop of Detroit, d. 1967

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. Syargei Akhatenka Archbishop of Minsk and Belarus consecrated 1 August 1943
2. Michael Khoroshii/Khoroshoi Archbishop of Toronto and Eastern Canada, 1885–1977 consecrated 12 May 1942
3. Nikanor Abramovich Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church Abroad, 1883–1969 consecrated 9 February 1942
4. Alexander Inozemtsev Metropolitan of Pinsk and Poliske, 1887–1948 consecrated 4 June 1922
5. George Yaroshevskii Metropolitan of Warsaw and Chełm, 1872–1923 consecrated 1 July 1906
6. Vladimir Bogoyavlenskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1848–1918 consecrated 13 June 1888
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 4

• 19 December 1949Basil Tomashchik/Tamashchuk Archbishop of Vilnius and New York, 1900–1970
• 28 August 1955Donat Burtan Archbishop of Australia and New Zealand, 1894–1971
• 15 February 1968Andrew Krit/Kryt Metropolitan of America and Australia, 1901–1983
• 10 March 1968Nicholas Matsukevich/Matsyukevich Archbishop of Toronto, 1917–2002

Sources

Also in: Wikidata