Vincent Chekalin

Life

Born

1952

Ordained deacon

1982

Monastic tonsure

1983

Ordained priest

1983

Consecrated bishop

28 June 1988

Defrocked

1998

Sees

1. 28 June 1988 – 1990

   Bishop of Yasno Pole

   Russian Orthodox Catacomb Church

2. 1990 – 1991

   Bishop of Yasno Pole

   Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church

3. 1991

   Bishop of Yasno Pole

   Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

4. 1991 – present

   Bishop of Yasno Pole, Primate of the Russian Orthodox Catholic Church

   Russian Orthodox Catholic Church

Consecration

Consecrated 28 June 1988 by:

• Aleksii Konoplyov Metropolitan of Kalinin and Kashin, 1910–1988
• John Bodnarchuk Metropolitan of Lutsk and Volyn, 1929–1994
• Vladimir Abramov Bishop, 1955–1987

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 10 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Vincent Chekalin Bishop of Yasno Pole, Primate of the Russian Orthodox Catholic Church consecrated 28 June 1988
2. Aleksii Konoplyov Metropolitan of Kalinin and Kashin, 1910–1988 consecrated 21 July 1956
3. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
4. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
5. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
6. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
7. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
8. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
9. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
10. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
11. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 2

• 31 March 1990Basil Bodnarchuk Metropolitan of Ternopil and Bucha, 1925–2006
• 29 April 1990Volodymyr Romanyuk Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus'-Ukraine, 1925–1995