Alexander
Александр
Bishop of Vevey · b. 1956
Born Adrien (Francisco) Echevarria (Adrien (Francisco) Echevarria)
Life
- Born
- 19 February 1956
- Ordained deacon
- 26 September 1996
- Ordained priest
- March 1997
- Elected bishop
- 20 September 2018
- Monastic tonsure
- 25 November 2018
- Made archimandrite
- 2 December 2018
- Consecrated bishop
- 20 January 2019
- Retired
- 5 March 2024
Sees
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20 January 2019 – 5 March 2024
Bishop of Vevey
Vicar of Western Europe · ROCOR/Patriarchate of Moscow
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5 March 2024 – present
Former Bishop of Vevey
Vicar of Western Europe · ROCOR/Patriarchate of Moscow
Consecration
Consecrated 20 January 2019 by:
- Mark Arndt Metropolitan of Berlin and Germany, b. 1941
- Agapit Gorachek Archbishop of Stuttgart, 1955–2020
- Irinei Steenberg Bishop of London and Western Europe, b. 1978
- Feodosii Ivashchenko Bishop of Manhattan, b. 1964
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.
- Alexander Bishop of Vevey consecrated 20 January 2019
- Agapit Gorachek Archbishop of Stuttgart, 1955–2020 consecrated 1 May 2001
- Ambrose Cantacuzène Former Bishop of Geneva and Western Europe, 1947–2009 consecrated 26 September 1993
- Anthony Bartoshevich Archbishop of Geneva and Western Europe, 1910–1993 consecrated 5 May 1957
- John Maximovich Archbishop of San Francisco and Western America, 1896–1966 consecrated 1934
- Anthony Khrapovitsky Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1863–1936 consecrated 7 September 1897
- Arsenii Bryantsev Archbishop of Kharkiv and Okhtyrka, 1839–1914 consecrated 17 May 1882
- Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
- Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
- Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
- Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
- Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
- Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735
Sources
Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata
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