Orthodox Hierarchs

Patriarchate of Moscow

Saint John Maximovich

Иоанн

Archbishop of San Francisco and Western America · 1896–1966

Born Mikhail Borisovich Maximovich (Михаил Борисович Максимович)

Life

Born
4 June 1896
Monastic tonsure
1926
Ordained deacon
1926
Ordained priest
1926
Consecrated bishop
1934
Made archbishop
1946
Died
2 July 1966
Canonized
date unknown

Sees

  1. 1934 – 1946

    Bishop of Shanghai

    Patriarchate of Moscow

  2. 1946 – 1962

    Archbishop of Western Europe

    Patriarchate of Moscow

  3. 1962 – 2 July 1966

    Archbishop of San Francisco and Western America

    Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 1934 by:

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 8 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

  1. John Maximovich Archbishop of San Francisco and Western America consecrated 1934
  2. Anthony Khrapovitsky Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1863–1936 consecrated 7 September 1897
  3. Arsenii Bryantsev Archbishop of Kharkiv and Okhtyrka, 1839–1914 consecrated 17 May 1882
  4. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
  5. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
  6. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
  7. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
  8. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
  9. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 9

  • 16 February 1935Juvenal Kilin Archbishop of Izhevsk and Udmurtia, 1875–1958
  • 12 July 1951James Toombs Primate of the Orthodox American Church, 1887–1970
  • 25 May 1953Averky Taushev Archbishop of Syracuse and Holy Trinity, 1906–1976
  • 18 July 1954Nikodim Nagayev Archbishop of Richmond and Great Britain, 1883–1976
  • 26 December 1954Teofil Ionescu Archbishop of Central and Western Europe, 1894–1975
  • 5 May 1957Anthony Bartoshevich Archbishop of Geneva and Western Europe, 1910–1993
  • 9 August 1964Cyril Yonchev Archbishop of Pittsburgh, Western Pennsylvania and the Bulgarian Diocese, 1920–2007
  • 11 November 1964John Kovalevskii Bishop of Saint-Denis, 1905–1970
  • 11 November 1964John-Nectaire Kovalevsky Bishop of St. Denis, 1905–1970

Sources

Also in: Wikidata

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