 His principal consecrator was Archbishop John (Maximovitch) (the bishop in Western Europe at the time, later St John the Wonderworker).John Maximovitch's death in 1966 was a serious blow to the Western Orthodox Christians in France, for no other supporter for the Western Rite was to be found on the Council of Bishops, and once again they found themselves in a state of isolation.While the 's Western Rite mission under Mensbrugghe and Chambault withered and ended, Bishop John (Eugraph Kovalevsky)'s church continued to thrive.