Aleksii Bondarenko

Life

Consecrated bishop

2 February 2003

Made archbishop

2005

Sees

1. 2 February 2003 – 2005

   Bishop of Pavlovskii Posad

   True Orthodox Church (Moscow Metropolia)

2. 2005

   Archbishop of Chicago and North America

   True Orthodox Church (Moscow Metropolia)

3. 2005 – present

   Archbishop of Minneapolis and Chicago

   True Orthodox Church (Moscow Metropolia)

4. 2011

   Locum tenens of the True Orthodox Church (Moscow Metropolia)

   True Orthodox Church (Moscow Metropolia)

Consecration

Consecrated 2 February 2003 by:

• Vyacheslav Lisovoi Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1966–2011
• Michael Vishnevskii Bishop of Bronnitsy and Belinskii, cons. 1999

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 15 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Aleksii Bondarenko Archbishop of Minneapolis and Chicago consecrated 2 February 2003
2. Vyacheslav Lisovoi Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1966–2011 consecrated 22 November 1998
3. Stephen Linitskii Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Mozhaisk, b. 1934 consecrated 17 December 1996
4. John Modzalevskii Archbishop of Uman, b. 1970 consecrated 17 June 1996
5. Roman Blashchuk/Balashchuk Metropolitan of Vinnytsya and Bratslav, b. 1953 consecrated 22 May 1990
6. John Bodnarchuk Metropolitan of Lutsk and Volyn, 1929–1994 consecrated 23 October 1977
7. Nicholas Yurik Metropolitan of Lviv and Ternopil, 1910–1984 consecrated 31 October 1965
8. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
9. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
10. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
11. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
12. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
13. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
14. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
15. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
16. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735