Cyril Dmitriev

Life

Born

24 November 1954

Monastic tonsure

1981

Ordained deacon

1981

Ordained priest

1981

Consecrated bishop

7 June 1992

Made archbishop

2003

Sees

1. 7 June 1992 – 17 October 2000

   Bishop of Seattle

   Vicar of San Francisco and Western America · ROCOR

2. 17 October 2000 – 17 December 2003

   Bishop of San Francisco and Western America

   ROCOR

3. 17 December 2003 – 17 May 2007

   Archbishop of San Francisco and Western America

   ROCOR

4. 17 May 2007 – present

   Archbishop of San Francisco and Western America

   ROCOR/Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 7 June 1992 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

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. Cyril Dmitriev Archbishop of San Francisco and Western America consecrated 7 June 1992
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 6

• 12 July 2003Peter Lukyanov Archbishop of Chicago and the Midwest, 1948–2024
• 7 September 2008Feodosii Ivashchenko Bishop of Manhattan, b. 1964
• 29 June 2014Nicholas Olkhovskii Metropolitan of New York and Eastern America, b. 1974
• 6 November 2016Irinei Steenberg Bishop of London and Western Europe, b. 1978
• 6 November 2019James Corazza Bishop of Sonora, b. 1958
• 10 December 2021Job Bandmann Bishop of Stuttgart, b. 1982

Sources

Also in: Wikidata