Milutin Knežević

Life

Born

10 January 1949

Monastic tonsure

26 October 1963

Ordained deacon

27 October 1963

Ordained priest

6 November 1963

Made archimandrite

17 October 1998

Consecrated bishop

20 July 2003

Died

30 March 2020

Sees

1. 20 July 2003 – 27 May 2006

   Bishop of Australia and New Zealand

   Patriarchate of Serbia

2. 27 May 2006 – 30 March 2020

   Bishop of Valjevo

   Patriarchate of Serbia

Consecration

Consecrated 20 July 2003 by:

• Paul Stojčević Archbishop of Peć, Metropolitan of Belgrade and Karlovci, Patriarch of Serbia, 1914–2009
• Nicholas Mrđa Metropolitan of Dabar-Bosnia, 1928–2015
• Amfilohije Radović Metropolitan of Montenegro and the Littoral, 1938–2020
• Longin Krčo/Jovanović Bishop of New Gračanica and the Midwest, b. 1955
• Laurence Trifunović Bishop of Šabac, 1935–2022
• Irinej Gavrilović Archbishop of Peć, Metropolitan of Belgrade and Karlovci, Patriarch of Serbia, 1930–2020
• Irinej Bulović Bishop of Bačka, b. 1947
• George Đokić Bishop of Canada, b. 1949
• Dositej Motika Bishop of Great Britain and Scandinavia, b. 1949

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. Milutin Knežević Bishop of Valjevo consecrated 20 July 2003
2. Longin Krčo/Jovanović Bishop of New Gračanica and the Midwest, b. 1955 consecrated 20 October 1985
3. Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014 consecrated 9 July 1966
4. Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978 consecrated 10 July 1960
5. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
6. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
7. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
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

Sources

Also in: Wikidata