Ephrem Kytsai

Life

Born

5 July 1966

Monastic tonsure

25 September 1992

Ordained deacon

27 September 1992

Ordained priest

10 October 1992

Made archimandrite

1 January 1994

Consecrated bishop

13 September 1996

Made archbishop

9 July 2006

Made metropolitan

17 August 2015

Sees

1. 13 September 1996 – 9 July 2006

   Bishop of Kryvyi Rih and Nikopol

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 9 July 2006 – 17 August 2015

   Archbishop of Kryvyi Rih and Nikopol

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 17 August 2015 – present

   Metropolitan of Kryvyi Rih and Nikopol

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 13 September 1996 by:

• Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014
• Agafangel Savvin Metropolitan of Odessa and Izmail, b. 1938
• Bartholomew Vashchuk Metropolitan of Rivne and Ostroh, 1953–2021
• Hilarion Shukalo Metropolitan of Donetsk and Mariupol, b. 1951
• Gurii Kuzmenko Archbishop of Zhytomyr and Novohrad-Volynskyi, b. 1964

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 11 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Ephrem Kytsai Metropolitan of Kryvyi Rih and Nikopol consecrated 13 September 1996
2. Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014 consecrated 9 July 1966
3. Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978 consecrated 10 July 1960
4. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
5. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
6. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
7. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
8. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
9. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
10. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
11. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
12. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 10

• 4 December 2005Arsenii Yakovenko Metropolitan of Svyatohirsk, b. 1968
• 19 August 2006Aleksii Grokha Metropolitan of Balta and Ananiv, b. 1972
• 4 June 2007Nikodim Horenko Metropolitan of Zhytomyr, b. 1972
• 19 October 2007Panteleimon Lugovoi Metropolitan of Uman and Zvenigorod, b. 1967
• 19 December 2007Alexander Drabynko Metropolitan of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi and Vishnevoye, b. 1977
• 13 December 2009Evlogii Patsan Archbishop of Novomoskovsk, b. 1970
• 2 January 2011Filaret Kucherov Metropolitan of Lviv and Halych, b. 1972
• 18 June 2011Dionisiy Konstantynov Bishop of Shepetivka and Slavuta, b. 1960
• 19 June 2011Nicholas Kapustin Metropolitan of Kremenchuk and Lubny, b. 1977
• 15 November 2015Sergii Mikhailenko Archbishop of Bolhrad, b. 1975

Sources

Also in: Wikidata