Ambrose

Life

Born

22 February 1980

Monastic tonsure

22 August 2001

Ordained deacon

7 October 2001

Ordained priest

10 December 2003

Made hegumen

18 April 2006

Made archimandrite

22 March 2012

Elected bishop

3 April 2019

Consecrated bishop

6 April 2019

Made archbishop

17 August 2022

Sees

1. 6 April 2019 – 17 August 2022

   Bishop of Volnovakha

   Vicar of Donetsk · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 17 August 2022 – present

   Archbishop of Volnovakha

   Vicar of Donetsk · Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 6 April 2019 by:

• Onufrii Berezovskii Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, b. 1944
• Mark Petrovtsy Metropolitan of Khust and Vynohradiv, b. 1951
• Hilarion Shukalo Metropolitan of Donetsk and Mariupol, b. 1951
• Paul Lebed Metropolitan of Vyshhorod and Chernobyl, b. 1961
• Mitrofan Yurchuk Metropolitan of Luhansk and Alchevsk, 1962–2021
• Anthony Pakanich Metropolitan of Boryspil and Brovary, b. 1967
• Arsenii Yakovenko Metropolitan of Svyatohirsk, b. 1968
• Mitrofan Nikitin Metropolitan of Horlivka and Slovyansk, b. 1976
• Elisei Ivanov Metropolitan of Izyum and Kupyansk, b. 1973
• Panteleimon Bashchuk Archbishop of Bucha, b. 1961
• Ephrem Yarinko Bishop of Berdyansk and Primorye, b. 1978
• Victor Kotsaba Metropolitan of Baryshivka and Starokostyantyniv, b. 1983
• Silvester Stoichev Bishop of Bilohorodka, b. 1980
• Spyridon Golovastov Archbishop of Dobropole, b. 1975
• Dionisii Pilipchuk Archbishop of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi, b. 1979

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. Ambrose Archbishop of Volnovakha consecrated 6 April 2019
2. Mark Petrovtsy Metropolitan of Khust and Vynohradiv, b. 1951 consecrated 28 July 1988
3. Nikodim Rusnak Metropolitan of Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv, 1921–2011 consecrated 10 August 1961
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 2

• 7 April 2019Symeon Golubka Archbishop of Ugolskii, b. 1968
• 13 June 2021Paisii Shinkaryov Archbishop of Konstantinovskii, b. 1988

Sources

Also in: Wikidata