Roman Kimovich

Life

Born

14 October 1971

Monastic tonsure

23 December 1993

Ordained deacon

20 February 1994

Ordained priest

18 June 1995

Made archimandrite

2008

Elected bishop

20 July 2012

Consecrated bishop

22 July 2012

Made archbishop

17 August 2017

Made metropolitan

17 August 2022

Sees

1. 22 July 2012 – 17 August 2017

   Bishop of Konotop and Hlukhiv

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 17 August 2017 – 17 August 2022

   Archbishop of Konotop and Hlukhiv

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 17 August 2022 – present

   Metropolitan of Konotop and Hlukhiv

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 22 July 2012 by:

• Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014
• Paul Lebed Metropolitan of Vyshhorod and Chernobyl, b. 1961
• Vladimir Moroz Metropolitan of Pochaiv, b. 1959
• Anthony Pakanich Metropolitan of Boryspil and Brovary, b. 1967
• Serapheim Demyaniv Archbishop of Yahotyn, b. 1953
• Alexander Drabynko Metropolitan of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi and Vishnevoye, b. 1977
• Alexander Nesterchuk Archbishop of Horodnytsa, b. 1950
• Anthony Borovik Former Bishop of Ugolskii, b. 1968
• Panteleimon Povoroznyuk Metropolitan of Luhansk and Alchevsk, b. 1973
• Dionisiy Konstantynov Bishop of Shepetivka and Slavuta, b. 1960

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. Roman Kimovich Metropolitan of Konotop and Hlukhiv consecrated 22 July 2012
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 7

• 23 July 2012Clement Vecherya Metropolitan of Nizhyn and Pryluky, b. 1977
• 29 September 2014Victor Bykov Archbishop of Artsyz, b. 1983
• 5 August 2015Nathaniel Krykota Metropolitan of Volyn and Lutsk, b. 1959
• 5 June 2017Victor Kotsaba Metropolitan of Baryshivka and Starokostyantyniv, b. 1983
• 8 December 2019Kallinik Chernyshyov Bishop of Bakhchysarai, 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