John Shlimun/Gevargizov

Life

Born

1857

Ordained deacon

1889

Ordained priest

1907

Consecrated bishop

18 December 1931

Retired

1945

Died

25 March 1962

Sees

1. 18 December 1931 – 1945

   Bishop of Salmas and Urmia

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1945 – 25 March 1962

   Former Bishop of Salmas and Urmia

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 18 December 1931 by:

• Anthony Khrapovitsky Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1863–1936
• Hermogen Maximov Metropolitan of Zagreb and All Croatia, 1861–1945

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. John Shlimun/Gevargizov Bishop of Salmas and Urmia consecrated 18 December 1931
2. Anthony Khrapovitsky Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1863–1936 consecrated 7 September 1897
3. Arsenii Bryantsev Archbishop of Kharkiv and Okhtyrka, 1839–1914 consecrated 17 May 1882
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

Sources

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