John Vakhnyuk

Life

Born

12 February 1968

Ordained deacon

9 June 1991

Ordained priest

16 June 1991

Monastic tonsure

6 December 1994

Made archimandrite

1996

Elected bishop

1 April 2015

Consecrated bishop

5 April 2015

Made archbishop

17 August 2021

Sees

1. 5 April 2015 – 17 August 2021

   Bishop of Zolotonosha

   Vicar of Cherkasy · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 17 August 2021 – present

   Archbishop of Zolotonosha

   Vicar of Cherkasy · Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 5 April 2015 by:

• Onufrii Berezovskii Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, b. 1944
• Paul Lebed Metropolitan of Vyshhorod and Chernobyl, b. 1961
• Sofroniy Dmytruk Metropolitan of Cherkasy and Kaniv, 1940–2020
• Irinei Semko Metropolitan of Nizhyn and Pryluky, 1963–2017
• Anthony Borovik Former Bishop of Ugolskii, b. 1968
• Feodosii Snigirov Metropolitan of Cherkasy and Kaniv, b. 1974
• Clement Vecherya Metropolitan of Nizhyn and Pryluky, b. 1977
• Damian Davydov Archbishop of Fastiv, b. 1959

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 12 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. John Vakhnyuk Archbishop of Zolotonosha consecrated 5 April 2015
2. Irinei Semko Metropolitan of Nizhyn and Pryluky, 1963–2017 consecrated 10 June 2007
3. Mark Petrovtsy Metropolitan of Khust and Vynohradiv, b. 1951 consecrated 28 July 1988
4. Nikodim Rusnak Metropolitan of Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv, 1921–2011 consecrated 10 August 1961
5. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
6. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
7. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
8. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
9. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
10. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
11. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
12. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
13. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 2

• 6 December 2015Benjamin Pogrebnoi Archbishop of Novi Sanzhary, b. 1979
• 6 June 2021Anthony Pukhkan Bishop of Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi, b. 1974

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata