Paul Gassios

Life

Born

6 April 1953

Ordained deacon

March 1994

Ordained priest

May 1994

Monastic tonsure

20 October 2014

Consecrated bishop

27 December 2014

Made archbishop

27 May 2020

Died

24 April 2022

Sees

1. 27 December 2014 – 27 May 2020

   Bishop of Chicago and the Midwest

   Orthodox Church in America

2. 27 May 2020 – 24 April 2022

   Archbishop of Chicago and the Midwest

   Orthodox Church in America

Consecration

Consecrated 27 December 2014 by:

• Tikhon Mollard Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, b. 1966
• Nathaniel Popp Archbishop of Detroit and the Romanian Episcopate, b. 1940
• Benjamin Peterson Archbishop of San Francisco, Los Angeles and the West, b. 1954
• Melchisedek Pleska Bishop of Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania, b. 1942
• Nicholas Condrea Metropolitan of the Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese of America and Canada, b. 1967
• Irénée Rochon Archbishop of Ottawa and Canada, b. 1948
• Michael Dahulich Archbishop of New York and New Jersey, b. 1950
• Alexander Golitzin Archbishop of Dallas and the Bulgarian Diocese, b. 1948
• David Mahaffey Bishop of Sitka and Alaska, b. 1952

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. Paul Gassios Archbishop of Chicago and the Midwest consecrated 27 December 2014
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 4

• 24 January 2015Daniel Brum Archbishop of Chicago and the Midwest, b. 1954
• 25 January 2020Alexis Trader Bishop of Bethesda, b. 1965
• 1 February 2020Andrew Hoarşte Bishop of Cleveland, b. 1982
• 29 June 2021Gerasim Eliel Bishop of Fort Worth, b. 1961

Sources

Also in: Wikidata