Nikanor Abramovich

Life

Born

27 July 1883

Ordained priest

23 October 1910

Made archbishop

1942

Consecrated bishop

9 February 1942

Made metropolitan

15 September 1952

Died

21 March 1969

Sees

1. 9 February 1942 – March 1942

   Bishop of Chyhyryn

   Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (Polikarpovtsy)

2. March 1942 – 17 May 1942

   Bishop of Kyiv

   Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (Polikarpovtsy)

3. 17 May 1942 – September 1943

   Archbishop of Kyiv

   Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (Polikarpovtsy)

4. 15 September 1952 – 28 October 1953

   Metropolitan of Germany

   Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (Polikarpovtsy)

5. 28 October 1953 – 21 March 1969

   Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church Abroad

   Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (Polikarpovtsy)

Consecration

Consecrated 9 February 1942 by:

• Alexander Inozemtsev Metropolitan of Pinsk and Poliske, 1887–1948
• Polycarp Sikorskii Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, 1875–1953
• Jerzy Korenistow Archbishop of Łódź and Poznań, 1900–1979

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 9 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Nikanor Abramovich Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church Abroad consecrated 9 February 1942
2. Alexander Inozemtsev Metropolitan of Pinsk and Poliske, 1887–1948 consecrated 4 June 1922
3. George Yaroshevskii Metropolitan of Warsaw and Chełm, 1872–1923 consecrated 1 July 1906
4. Vladimir Bogoyavlenskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1848–1918 consecrated 13 June 1888
5. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
6. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
7. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
8. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
9. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
10. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 9

• 10 May 1942Fotiy Timoshchuk Bishop of Vinnytsya and Zhytomyr, 1895–1974
• 11 May 1942Manuel Tarnavskii Bishop of Volodymyr-Volynskyi and Kovel, 1904–1943
• 12 May 1942Michael Khoroshii/Khoroshoi Archbishop of Toronto and Eastern Canada, 1885–1977
• 16 May 1942Silvester Gayevskii Archbishop of Melbourne, Australia and New Zealand, 1876–1975
• 17 May 1942Gregory Ogiychuk Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (Canonical), 1893–1985
• 23 June 1942Vladimir Malets Bishop of Detroit, d. 1967
• 2 August 1942Platon Artemyuk Bishop of Rivne, 1891–1951
• 7 September 1952John Danylyuk Archbishop of Sydney, Australia and New Zealand, 1896–1953
• 14 September 1952Oleksiy Pelypenko Bishop of South America, b. 1893