Sergii Gensitskii

Life

Born

4 December 1951

Ordained deacon

15 July 1973

Monastic tonsure

19 December 1985

Ordained priest

28 August 1990

Consecrated bishop

17 February 1991

Made archbishop

28 July 1998

Made metropolitan

9 July 2011

Sees

1. 17 February 1991 – 28 July 1998

   Bishop of Ternopil and Kremenets

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 28 July 1998 – 9 July 2011

   Archbishop of Ternopil and Kremenets

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 9 July 2011 – present

   Metropolitan of Ternopil and Kremenets

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 17 February 1991 by:

• Filaret Denysenko Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus'-Ukraine, b. 1929
• Job Tyvonyuk Metropolitan of Chelyabinsk and Zlatoust, 1938–2020
• Lazar Shvets Metropolitan of Simferopol and the Crimea, 1939–2026

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. Sergii Gensitskii Metropolitan of Ternopil and Kremenets consecrated 17 February 1991
2. Job Tyvonyuk Metropolitan of Chelyabinsk and Zlatoust, 1938–2020 consecrated 3 January 1975
3. Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003 consecrated 23 May 1963
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 16

• 9 September 1999Peter Arihara Bishop of Yokohama, d. 2000
• 30 July 2006Meletii Yegorenko Metropolitan of Chernivtsi (Cernăuţi) and Bukovina, b. 1962
• 26 November 2006Anthony Pakanich Metropolitan of Boryspil and Brovary, b. 1967
• 4 June 2007Nikodim Horenko Metropolitan of Zhytomyr, b. 1972
• 19 December 2007Alexander Drabynko Metropolitan of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi and Vishnevoye, b. 1977
• 22 May 2012Longin Zhar Metropolitan of Bancheny, b. 1965
• 23 July 2012Clement Vecherya Metropolitan of Nizhyn and Pryluky, b. 1977
• 28 September 2014Eveseviy Dudka Metropolitan of Shepetivka and Slavuta, b. 1964
• 28 December 2014Tikhon Chizhevskii Bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk and Kolomyya, 1947–2018
• 5 August 2015Nathaniel Krykota Metropolitan of Volyn and Lutsk, b. 1959
• 15 November 2015Sergii Mikhailenko Archbishop of Bolhrad, b. 1975
• 13 April 2019Ambrose Vainagii Archbishop of Zhurivka, b. 1985
• 18 July 2019Siluan Nikitin Bishop of Petergof, b. 1986
• 9 December 2019Paul Valuyskyi Archbishop of Bilovodsk, b. 1977
• 17 December 2019Nikodim Pustovgar Archbishop of Lyubech, b. 1980
• 4 December 2022Nikita Storozhuk Bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk and Kolomyya, b. 1980

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata