Matthias Moriak

Life

Born

4 April 1949

Ordained priest

18 June 1972

Monastic tonsure

14 October 2003

Made archimandrite

8 November 2010

Consecrated bishop

2 May 2011

Retired

15 April 2013

Sees

1. 2 May 2011 – 15 April 2013

   Bishop of Chicago and the Midwest

   Orthodox Church in America

2. 15 April 2013 – present

   Former Bishop of Chicago and the Midwest

   Orthodox Church in America

Consecration

Consecrated 2 May 2011 by:

• Jonah Paffhausen Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, b. 1959
• Nathaniel Popp Archbishop of Detroit and the Romanian Episcopate, b. 1940
• Nikon Liolin Archbishop of Boston, New England and the Albanian Archdiocese, 1945–2019
• Tikhon Mollard Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, b. 1966
• Benjamin Peterson Archbishop of San Francisco, Los Angeles and the West, b. 1954
• Alejo Pacheco y Vera Archbishop of Mexico City and the Exarchate of Mexico, b. 1954
• Melchisedek Pleska Bishop of Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania, b. 1942
• Michael Dahulich Archbishop of New York and New Jersey, b. 1950
• Mark Maymon Archbishop of Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania, b. 1958
• Irénée Rochon Archbishop of Ottawa and Canada, b. 1948
• Nicholas Condrea Metropolitan of the Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese of America and Canada, b. 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. Matthias Moriak Bishop of Chicago and the Midwest consecrated 2 May 2011
2. Nathaniel Popp Archbishop of Detroit and the Romanian Episcopate, b. 1940 consecrated 15 November 1980
3. Cyril Yonchev Archbishop of Pittsburgh, Western Pennsylvania and the Bulgarian Diocese, 1920–2007 consecrated 9 August 1964
4. John Maximovich Archbishop of San Francisco and Western America, 1896–1966 consecrated 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 1

• 5 May 2012Alexander Golitzin Archbishop of Dallas and the Bulgarian Diocese, b. 1948

Sources

Also in: Wikidata