Diodor Vasilchuk

Life

Born

22 July 1979

Monastic tonsure

9 December 1996

Ordained deacon

22 December 1996

Ordained priest

27 February 2000

Made archimandrite

13 April 2004

Elected bishop

25 September 2013

Consecrated bishop

29 September 2013

Made archbishop

25 June 2019

Sees

1. 29 September 2013 – 25 June 2019

   Bishop of Yuzhne

   Vicar of Odessa · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 25 June 2019 – present

   Archbishop of Yuzhne

   Vicar of Odessa · Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 29 September 2013 by:

• Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014
• Agafangel Savvin Metropolitan of Odessa and Izmail, b. 1938
• Anthony Pakanich Metropolitan of Boryspil and Brovary, b. 1967
• Paul Lebed Metropolitan of Vyshhorod and Chernobyl, b. 1961
• Serapheim Demyaniv Archbishop of Yahotyn, b. 1953
• Alexander Drabynko Metropolitan of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi and Vishnevoye, b. 1977
• Hilarion Shishkovskii Archbishop of Makariv, 1969–2018
• Panteleimon Lugovoi Metropolitan of Uman and Zvenigorod, b. 1967
• Jonah Cherepanov Archbishop of Obukhiv, b. 1971
• Clement Vecherya Metropolitan of Nizhyn and Pryluky, b. 1977
• Varsonofii Stolyar Metropolitan of Vinnytsya and Bar, b. 1972

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. Diodor Vasilchuk Archbishop of Yuzhne consecrated 29 September 2013
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 3

• 29 September 2014Victor Bykov Archbishop of Artsyz, b. 1983
• 15 November 2015Sergii Mikhailenko Archbishop of Bolhrad, b. 1975
• 24 December 2017Silvester Stoichev Bishop of Bilohorodka, b. 1980

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata