Ephrem Yarinko

Life

Born

11 December 1978

Monastic tonsure

23 September 1997

Ordained deacon

2 November 1997

Ordained priest

4 November 1997

Made archimandrite

2 April 2006

Elected bishop

20 July 2012

Consecrated bishop

5 August 2012

Made archbishop

17 August 2018

Made metropolitan

17 August 2022

Retired

16 May 2023

Sees

1. 5 August 2012 – 17 August 2018

   Bishop of Berdyansk and Primorye

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 17 August 2018 – 17 August 2022

   Archbishop of Berdyansk and Primorye

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 17 August 2022 – 16 May 2023

   Metropolitan of Berdyansk and Primorye

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 16 May 2023 – present

   Former Metropolitan of Berdyansk and Primorye

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 5 August 2012 by:

• Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014
• Mark Petrovtsy Metropolitan of Khust and Vynohradiv, b. 1951
• Anthony Pakanich Metropolitan of Boryspil and Brovary, b. 1967
• Luke Kovalenko Metropolitan of Zaporizhzhya and Melitopol, b. 1971
• Alexander Drabynko Metropolitan of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi and Vishnevoye, b. 1977
• Hilarion Shishkovskii Archbishop of Makariv, 1969–2018
• Panteleimon Povoroznyuk Metropolitan of Luhansk and Alchevsk, b. 1973
• Feodosii Snigirov Metropolitan of Cherkasy and Kaniv, b. 1974
• Clement Vecherya Metropolitan of Nizhyn and Pryluky, b. 1977

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 Yarinko Bishop of Berdyansk and Primorye consecrated 5 August 2012
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 8

• 30 August 2012Damian Davydov Archbishop of Fastiv, b. 1959
• 4 September 2012Aleksii Shpakov Metropolitan of Voznesensk and Pervomaiskyi, b. 1975
• 5 August 2015Nathaniel Krykota Metropolitan of Volyn and Lutsk, b. 1959
• 5 June 2017Victor Kotsaba Metropolitan of Baryshivka and Starokostyantyniv, b. 1983
• 24 December 2017Silvester Stoichev Bishop of Bilohorodka, b. 1980
• 6 April 2019Ambrose Archbishop of Volnovakha, b. 1980
• 7 April 2019Symeon Golubka Archbishop of Ugolskii, b. 1968
• 13 April 2019Ambrose Vainagii Archbishop of Zhurivka, b. 1985

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata