Vladimir Melnik

Life

Born

26 November 1968

Monastic tonsure

1992

Ordained deacon

1992

Ordained priest

1994

Made archimandrite

2003

Consecrated bishop

11 June 2007

Made archbishop

28 August 2014

Made metropolitan

28 July 2017

Sees

1. 11 June 2007 – 14 June 2011

   Bishop of Shepetivka and Slavuta

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 14 June 2011 – 28 August 2014

   Bishop of Volodymyr-Volynskyi

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 28 August 2014 – 28 July 2017

   Archbishop of Volodymyr-Volynskyi

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 28 July 2017 – present

   Metropolitan of Volodymyr-Volynskyi

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 11 June 2007 by:

• Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014
• Ioannikii Kobzev Metropolitan of Luhansk and Alchevsk, 1938–2020
• Bartholomew Vashchuk Metropolitan of Rivne and Ostroh, 1953–2021
• Symeon Shostatskyi Metropolitan of Vinnytsya and Bar, b. 1962
• Paul Lebed Metropolitan of Vyshhorod and Chernobyl, b. 1961
• Mitrofan Yurchuk Metropolitan of Luhansk and Alchevsk, 1962–2021
• Ambrose Polikopa Metropolitan of Chernihiv and Novhorod-Siverskyi, b. 1943
• Luke Kovalenko Metropolitan of Zaporizhzhya and Melitopol, b. 1971
• Anthony Pakanich Metropolitan of Boryspil and Brovary, b. 1967
• Irinei Semko Metropolitan of Nizhyn and Pryluky, 1963–2017

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. Vladimir Melnik Metropolitan of Volodymyr-Volynskyi consecrated 11 June 2007
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 12

• 19 December 2007Alexander Drabynko Metropolitan of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi and Vishnevoye, b. 1977
• 18 May 2008Anthony Borovik Former Bishop of Ugolskii, b. 1968
• 24 September 2008Panteleimon Povoroznyuk Metropolitan of Luhansk and Alchevsk, b. 1973
• 16 November 2008Alexander Nesterchuk Archbishop of Horodnytsa, b. 1950
• 18 November 2008Joseph Maslennikov Metropolitan of Romena and Buryn, b. 1978
• 25 December 2010Nikodim Baranovskii Metropolitan of Severodonetsk and Starobilsk, b. 1975
• 2 January 2011Filaret Kucherov Metropolitan of Lviv and Halych, b. 1972
• 18 June 2011Dionisiy Konstantynov Bishop of Shepetivka and Slavuta, b. 1960
• 5 August 2015Nathaniel Krykota Metropolitan of Volyn and Lutsk, b. 1959
• 25 September 2017Paul Tokajuk Bishop of Hajnówka, b. 1978
• 27 September 2017Andrew Borkowski Bishop of Supraśl, b. 1974
• 17 December 2019Nikodim Pustovgar Archbishop of Lyubech, b. 1980

Sources

Also in: Wikidata