Ambrose Merezhko

Life

Born

25 August 1889

Ordained deacon

1938

Ordained priest

1939

Consecrated bishop

11 September 1955

Made archbishop

1967

Retired

March 1972

Died

9 December 1974

Sees

1. 11 September 1955 – 1967

   Bishop of Sitka and Alaska

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1962

   Locum tenens of Japanese Orthodox Church

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 1967 – 1972

   Archbishop of Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 1972 – 1973

   Former Archbishop of Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 1973 – 9 December 1974

   Former Archbishop of Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania

   ROCOR

Consecration

Consecrated 11 September 1955 by:

• Leontii Turkevich Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1876–1965

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 9 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Ambrose Merezhko Former Archbishop of Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania consecrated 11 September 1955
2. Leontii Turkevich Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1876–1965 consecrated 10 July 1933
3. Platon Rozhdestvenskii Metropolitan of the Aleutian Islands and North America, 1866–1934 consecrated 3 June 1902
4. Feognost Lebedev Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1829–1903 consecrated 22 January 1867
5. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
6. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
7. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
8. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
9. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
10. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Sources

• wikidata.org

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