Serapheim Sigrist

Life

Born

13 December 1941

Ordained priest

October 1969

Made archimandrite

October 1969

Monastic tonsure

18 October 1969

Consecrated bishop

19 October 1971

Retired

1987

Sees

1. 19 October 1971 – 1987

   Bishop of Sendai and Eastern Japan

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1987 – 2 April 2009

   Former Bishop of Sendai and Eastern Japan

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 2 April 2009 – present

   Former Bishop of Sendai and Eastern Japan

   Orthodox Church in America

Consecration

Consecrated 19 October 1971 by:

• Vladimir Nagosky Metropolitan of San Francisco and the West, 1922–1997
• Anthony Melnikov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1924–1986
• Theodosius Lazor Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1933–2020
• Theodosius Nagashima Metropolitan of Tokyo, Metropolitan of All Japan, 1935–1999
• Nicholas Sayama Archbishop of Ramenskoye, 1914–2008

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. Serapheim Sigrist Bishop of Sendai consecrated 19 October 1971
2. Theodosius Lazor Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1933–2020 consecrated 6 May 1967
3. Silvester Haruns Archbishop of Montréal and Canada, 1914–2000 consecrated 27 April 1952
4. Vladimir Tikhonitskii Metropolitan of Białystok, 1873–1959 consecrated 3 June 1907
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

Sources

Also in: Wikidata