Basil Tomashchik/Tamashchuk

Life

Born

15 April 1900

Monastic tonsure

23 April 1949

Ordained priest

5 June 1949

Consecrated bishop

19 December 1949

Made archbishop

1954

Died

9 June 1970

Sees

1. 19 December 1949 – 1954

   Bishop

   Belorussian Autocephalous Orthodox Church

2. 1954 – 9 June 1970

   Archbishop of Vilnius and New York

   Belorussian Autocephalous Orthodox Church

Consecration

Consecrated 19 December 1949 by:

• Syargei Akhatenka Archbishop of Minsk and Belarus, 1890–1971

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 12 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Basil Tomashchik/Tamashchuk Archbishop of Vilnius and New York consecrated 19 December 1949
2. Syargei Akhatenka Archbishop of Minsk and Belarus, 1890–1971 consecrated 1 August 1943
3. Michael Khoroshii/Khoroshoi Archbishop of Toronto and Eastern Canada, 1885–1977 consecrated 12 May 1942
4. Nikanor Abramovich Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church Abroad, 1883–1969 consecrated 9 February 1942
5. Alexander Inozemtsev Metropolitan of Pinsk and Poliske, 1887–1948 consecrated 4 June 1922
6. George Yaroshevskii Metropolitan of Warsaw and Chełm, 1872–1923 consecrated 1 July 1906
7. Vladimir Bogoyavlenskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1848–1918 consecrated 13 June 1888
8. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
9. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
10. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
11. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
12. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
13. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 2

• 15 February 1968Andrew Krit/Kryt Metropolitan of America and Australia, 1901–1983
• 10 March 1968Nicholas Matsukevich/Matsyukevich Archbishop of Toronto, 1917–2002

Sources

Also in: Wikidata