Vladimir Orachov

Life

Born

8 September 1973

Ordained deacon

24 April 1992

Monastic tonsure

15 September 1992

Ordained priest

7 January 1994

Made archimandrite

21 May 1994

Elected bishop

17 November 2008

Consecrated bishop

22 November 2008

Made archbishop

17 August 2015

Made metropolitan

17 August 2020

Sees

1. 22 November 2008 – 24 November 2009

   Bishop of Kremenchuk and Lubny

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 24 November 2009 – 23 December 2010

   Bishop of Rovenki

   Vicar of Luhansk · Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 23 December 2010 – 17 August 2015

   Bishop of Dniprodzerzhynsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 17 August 2015 – 20 July 2016

   Archbishop of Dniprodzerzhynsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 20 July 2016 – 17 August 2020

   Archbishop of Kamensk and Tsarychanka

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 17 August 2020 – present

   Metropolitan of Kamensk and Tsarychanka

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 22 November 2008 by:

• Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014
• Agafangel Savvin Metropolitan of Odessa and Izmail, b. 1938
• Ioannikii Kobzev Metropolitan of Luhansk and Alchevsk, 1938–2020
• Peter Karpusyuk Bishop of Dyatlava, 1959–2020
• Agapit Bevtsik Metropolitan of Mohyliv-Podilskyi and Sharhorod, b. 1965
• Mitrofan Nikitin Metropolitan of Horlivka and Slovyansk, b. 1976
• Hilarion Shishkovskii Archbishop of Makariv, 1969–2018
• Evlogii Gutchenko Metropolitan of Sumy and Okhtyrka, b. 1967
• Alexander Drabynko Metropolitan of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi and Vishnevoye, b. 1977
• Anthony Borovik Former Bishop of Ugolskii, b. 1968
• Panteleimon Povoroznyuk Metropolitan of Luhansk and Alchevsk, b. 1973
• Nektarii Frolov Bishop of Taldykorgan, b. 1961

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 Orachov Metropolitan of Kamensk and Tsarychanka consecrated 22 November 2008
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 5

• 29 November 2009Tikhon Zhilyakov Bishop of Kremenchuk and Lubny, 1968–2011
• 13 December 2009Evlogii Patsan Archbishop of Novomoskovsk, b. 1970
• 2 January 2011Filaret Kucherov Metropolitan of Lviv and Halych, b. 1972
• 23 December 2012Bogolep Goncharenko Metropolitan of Oleksandriya and Svitlovodsk, b. 1978
• 30 March 2013Varsonofii Vinnichenko Archbishop of Kökşetau and Akmola, b. 1961

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata