Anthony Bloom

Life

Born

19 June 1914

Monastic tonsure

16 April 1943

Ordained deacon

27 October 1948

Ordained priest

14 November 1948

Made archimandrite

1956

Consecrated bishop

30 November 1957

Made archbishop

10 October 1962

Made metropolitan

27 January 1966

Retired

30 July 2003

Died

4 August 2003

Sees

1. 30 November 1957 – 10 October 1962

   Bishop of Sergiev

   Vicar of the Exarch of the Patriarch of Moscow in Western Europe · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 10 October 1962 – 27 January 1966

   Archbishop of Sourozh

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 27 January 1966 – 30 July 2003

   Metropolitan of Sourozh

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 30 July 2003 – 4 August 2003

   Former Metropolitan of Sourozh

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 30 November 1957 by:

• Nicholas Eryomin Metropolitan of Korsun, 1892–1985
• Iakovos Virvos Metropolitan of Christoupolis, 1901–1976

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. Anthony Bloom Metropolitan of Sourozh consecrated 30 November 1957
2. Nicholas Eryomin Metropolitan of Korsun, 1892–1985 consecrated 17 December 1953
3. Boris Vik Metropolitan of Kherson and Odessa, 1906–1965 consecrated 2 April 1944
4. Sergii Stragorodskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1867–1944 consecrated 25 February 1901
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 9

• 14 June 1959Basil Krivoshein Archbishop of Brussels and Belgium, 1900–1985
• 1 November 1960Aleksii van der Mensbrugghe Former Archbishop of Düsseldorf, 1899–1980
• 30 December 1962Vladimir Kotlyarov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1929–2022
• 12 December 1965John Snychyov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Ladoga, 1927–1995
• 30 January 1966Irinei Susemihl Metropolitan of Vienna and Austria, 1919–1999
• 12 September 1968Peter L'Huiller Archbishop of New York and New Jersey, 1926–2007
• 3 September 1972Anatolii Kuznetsov Archbishop of Kerch, 1930–2024
• 17 May 1987Panteleimon Dolganov Metropolitan of Yaroslavl and Rostov, b. 1941
• 7 March 1993Basil Osborne Bishop of Amphipolis, b. 1938

Sources

Also in: Wikidata