George Tarassoff

Life

Born

27 April 1893

Ordained deacon

1928

Ordained priest

16 April 1930

Monastic tonsure

1933

Consecrated bishop

4 October 1953

Made archbishop

12 October 1960

Died

22 March 1981

Sees

1. 4 October 1953 – 12 October 1960

   Bishop of Syracuse

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 12 October 1960 – 22 March 1981

   Archbishop of Syracuse

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 4 October 1953 by:

• Vladimir Tikhonitskii Metropolitan of Białystok, 1873–1959
• Silvester Haruns Archbishop of Montréal and Canada, 1914–2000
• Mefodii Kulman Bishop of Kampania, 1902–1974
• Meletios Karabinis Metropolitan of France, 1914–1993

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 8 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. George Tarassoff Archbishop of Syracuse consecrated 4 October 1953
2. Vladimir Tikhonitskii Metropolitan of Białystok, 1873–1959 consecrated 3 June 1907
3. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
4. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
5. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
6. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
7. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
8. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
9. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 2

• 3 October 1971George Wagner Archbishop of Evdokia, 1930–1993
• 7 May 1972Stephen Timchenko Bishop of Patara, 1898–1979

Sources

Also in: Wikidata