Aleksii Grokha

Life

Born

27 September 1972

Monastic tonsure

20 December 1992

Ordained deacon

3 January 1993

Ordained priest

7 January 1993

Made archimandrite

7 April 1995

Consecrated bishop

19 August 2006

Made archbishop

22 November 2012

Made metropolitan

17 August 2018

Sees

1. 19 August 2006 – 22 November 2012

   Bishop of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi

   Vicar of Odessa · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 22 November 2012 – 20 December 2012

   Archbishop of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi

   Vicar of Odessa · Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 20 December 2012 – 17 August 2018

   Archbishop of Balta and Ananiv

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 17 August 2018 – present

   Metropolitan of Balta and Ananiv

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 19 August 2006 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
• Anthony Moskalenko Archbishop of the Urals and Atyrau, 1940–2025
• Bartholomew Vashchuk Metropolitan of Rivne and Ostroh, 1953–2021
• Anthony Fialko Metropolitan of Makariv, b. 1946
• Symeon Shostatskyi Metropolitan of Vinnytsya and Bar, b. 1962
• Ephrem Kytsai Metropolitan of Kryvyi Rih and Nikopol, b. 1966
• John Siopko Metropolitan of Kherson and Taurida, b. 1964
• Paul Lebed Metropolitan of Vyshhorod and Chernobyl, b. 1961
• Innocent Shestopal Bishop of Konotop and Hlukhiv, 1945–2022
• Ambrose Polikopa Metropolitan of Chernihiv and Novhorod-Siverskyi, b. 1943
• Peter Musteață Archbishop of Ungheni and Nisporeni, b. 1967

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. Aleksii Grokha Metropolitan of Balta and Ananiv consecrated 19 August 2006
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

• 4 June 2007Nikodim Horenko Metropolitan of Zhytomyr, b. 1972
• 4 August 2012Arkadii Taranov Archbishop of Rovenki and Sverdlovsk, b. 1957
• 29 September 2014Victor Bykov Archbishop of Artsyz, b. 1983
• 5 August 2015Nathaniel Krykota Metropolitan of Volyn and Lutsk, b. 1959
• 15 November 2015Sergii Mikhailenko Archbishop of Bolhrad, b. 1975