Ambrose Polikopa

Life

Born

20 September 1943

Ordained deacon

8 October 1972

Ordained priest

15 April 1973

Monastic tonsure

28 June 1998

Made archimandrite

28 June 1998

Consecrated bishop

28 June 1998

Made archbishop

24 September 2008

Made metropolitan

17 August 2015

Sees

1. 28 June 1998 – 16 October 2003

   Bishop of Novhorod-Siverskyi

   Vicar of Chernihiv · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 28 June 1998 – 31 May 2007

   Bishop of Chernihiv and Nizhyn

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 31 May 2007 – 24 September 2008

   Bishop of Chernihiv and Novhorod-Siverskyi

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 24 September 2008 – 17 August 2015

   Archbishop of Chernihiv and Novhorod-Siverskyi

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 17 August 2015 – present

   Metropolitan of Chernihiv and Novhorod-Siverskyi

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. after 2017-09-23 – December 2017

   Locum tenens of Nizhyn and Pryluky

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 28 June 1998 by:

• Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014

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 Polikopa Metropolitan of Chernihiv and Novhorod-Siverskyi consecrated 28 June 1998
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 18

• 30 January 2005Stephen Neshcheret Archbishop of Homieĺ and Zhlobin, b. 1966
• 4 December 2005Arsenii Yakovenko Metropolitan of Svyatohirsk, b. 1968
• 30 July 2006Meletii Yegorenko Metropolitan of Chernivtsi (Cernăuţi) and Bukovina, b. 1962
• 19 August 2006Aleksii Grokha Metropolitan of Balta and Ananiv, b. 1972
• 26 November 2006Anthony Pakanich Metropolitan of Boryspil and Brovary, b. 1967
• 10 June 2007Irinei Semko Metropolitan of Nizhyn and Pryluky, 1963–2017
• 11 June 2007Vladimir Melnik Metropolitan of Volodymyr-Volynskyi, b. 1968
• 16 November 2007Serapheim Demyaniv Archbishop of Yahotyn, b. 1953
• 19 December 2007Alexander Drabynko Metropolitan of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi and Vishnevoye, b. 1977
• 24 September 2008Panteleimon Povoroznyuk Metropolitan of Luhansk and Alchevsk, b. 1973
• 1 July 2012Nikon Fomin Metropolitan of Astrakhan and Kamyzyak, b. 1963
• 4 August 2012Arkadii Taranov Archbishop of Rovenki and Sverdlovsk, b. 1957
• 15 November 2015Sergii Mikhailenko Archbishop of Bolhrad, b. 1975
• 18 June 2018Gedeon Kharon Bishop of Makariv, b. 1960
• 8 December 2019Kallinik Chernyshyov Bishop of Bakhchysarai, b. 1977
• 9 December 2019Paul Valuyskyi Archbishop of Bilovodsk, b. 1977
• 17 December 2019Nikodim Pustovgar Archbishop of Lyubech, b. 1980
• 27 August 2020Feodosii Marchenko Bishop of Ladan, b. 1982

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata