Ignatius Nicholas/Nicols

Life

Born

4 December 1877

Ordained deacon

1930

Ordained priest

1930

Consecrated bishop

27 September 1932

Died

6 February 1947

Sees

1. 27 September 1932 – 6 February 1947

   Bishop of Washington and America

   American Orthodox Catholic Church

Consecration

Consecrated 27 September 1932 by:

• Aftimios Ofiesh Former Archbishop of Brooklyn, 1880–1966
• Sofronii Bishara/Bashira/Beshara Bishop of Los Angeles, 1888–1940
• Joseph Žuk Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in America, 1872–1934

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. Ignatius Nicholas/Nicols Bishop of Washington and America consecrated 27 September 1932
2. Aftimios Ofiesh Former Archbishop of Brooklyn, 1880–1966 consecrated 13 May 1917
3. Innocent Pustynskii Archbishop of Tashkent and Türkıstan, 1868–1937 consecrated 14 December 1903
4. Vladimir Bogoyavlenskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1848–1918 consecrated 13 June 1888
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