Nikon Liolin

Life

Born

9 October 1945

Ordained deacon

5 July 1969

Ordained priest

6 July 1969

Consecrated bishop

25 May 2002

Made archbishop

9 May 2012

Died

1 September 2019

Sees

1. 25 May 2002 – 22 October 2003

   Bishop of Baltimore

   Orthodox Church in America

2. 22 October 2003 – October 2005

   Bishop of Boston

   Orthodox Church in America

3. October 2005 – 9 May 2012

   Bishop of Boston, New England and the Albanian Archdiocese

   Orthodox Church in America

4. 9 May 2012 – 1 September 2019

   Archbishop of Boston, New England and the Albanian Archdiocese

   Orthodox Church in America

Consecration

Consecrated 25 May 2002 by:

• Theodosius Lazor Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1933–2020
• Cyril Yonchev Archbishop of Pittsburgh, Western Pennsylvania and the Bulgarian Diocese, 1920–2007
• Peter L'Huiller Archbishop of New York and New Jersey, 1926–2007
• Dmitri Royster Archbishop of Dallas and the South, 1923–2011
• Herman Swaiko Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1931–2022
• Nathaniel Popp Archbishop of Detroit and the Romanian Episcopate, b. 1940
• Job Osacky Archbishop of Chicago and the Midwest, 1946–2009
• Seraphim Storheim Archbishop of Ottawa and Canada, b. 1946
• Nicholas Soraich Former Bishop of Sitka and Alaska, b. 1949
• Mark Forsberg Former Bishop of Boston, 1934–2018
• Basil Essey Bishop of Wichita and Mid-America, b. 1948

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 10 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Nikon Liolin Archbishop of Boston, New England and the Albanian Archdiocese consecrated 25 May 2002
2. Herman Swaiko Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1931–2022 consecrated 10 February 1973
3. Silvester Haruns Archbishop of Montréal and Canada, 1914–2000 consecrated 27 April 1952
4. Vladimir Tikhonitskii Metropolitan of Białystok, 1873–1959 consecrated 3 June 1907
5. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
6. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
7. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
8. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
9. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
10. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
11. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 6

• 2 November 2002Irineu Duvlea Bishop of Dearborn Heights, b. 1962
• 14 February 2004Tikhon Mollard Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, b. 1966
• 27 June 2009Melchisedek Pleska Bishop of Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania, b. 1942
• 8 May 2010Michael Dahulich Archbishop of New York and New Jersey, b. 1950
• 2 May 2011Matthias Moriak Bishop of Chicago and the Midwest, b. 1949
• 5 May 2012Alexander Golitzin Archbishop of Dallas and the Bulgarian Diocese, b. 1948

Sources

Also in: Wikidata