Leonid Zhvania

Life

Born

1 December 1885

Monastic tonsure

1 February 1957

Ordained deacon

3 February 1957

Ordained priest

4 February 1957

Consecrated bishop

15 February 1957

Died

14 December 1964

Sees

1. 15 February 1957 – 14 December 1964

   Bishop of Sukhumi and Abkhazia

   Patriarchate of Georgia

Consecration

Consecrated 15 February 1957 by:

• Melchisedek III Pkhaladze Catholicos and Patriarch of All Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta and Tbilisi, 1872–1960

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 1 generation back to Melchisedek III Pkhaladze; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Leonid Zhvania Bishop of Sukhumi and Abkhazia consecrated 15 February 1957
2. Melchisedek III Pkhaladze Catholicos and Patriarch of All Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta and Tbilisi, 1872–1960 consecrated 14 October 1925

Bishops he consecrated 1

• 26 August 1963Elias II Ghudushauri-Shiolashvili Catholicos and Patriarch of All Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta and Tbilisi, b. 1933

Sources

Also in: Wikidata