John Lipšāns

Life

Born

1957

Ordained deacon

1985

Ordained priest

1986

Monastic tonsure

2023

Made archimandrite

2023

Consecrated bishop

15 August 2023

Sees

1. 15 August 2023 – present

   Bishop of Valmiera

   Vicar of Riga · Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 15 August 2023 by:

• Alexander Kudrjašovs Metropolitan of Riga and All Latvia, b. 1939
• Alexander Matryonin Bishop of Daugavpils and Rēzekne, b. 1973
• John Sichyovskii Bishop of Jelgava, b. 1978

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. John Lipšāns Bishop of Valmiera consecrated 15 August 2023
2. Alexander Matryonin Bishop of Daugavpils and Rēzekne, b. 1973 consecrated 19 August 2006
3. Alexander Agrikov Metropolitan of Bryansk and Sevsk, b. 1953 consecrated 2 September 2001
4. Herman Swaiko Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1931–2022 consecrated 10 February 1973
5. Silvester Haruns Archbishop of Montréal and Canada, 1914–2000 consecrated 27 April 1952
6. Vladimir Tikhonitskii Metropolitan of Białystok, 1873–1959 consecrated 3 June 1907
7. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
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