Meletii Yegorenko

Life

Born

17 July 1962

Monastic tonsure

3 December 1986

Ordained deacon

19 December 1986

Ordained priest

6 January 1991

Made archimandrite

24 June 1992

Consecrated bishop

30 July 2006

Made archbishop

23 November 2013

Made metropolitan

17 August 2016

Sees

1. 30 July 2006 – 23 November 2013

   Bishop of Khotyn

   Vicar of Chernivtsi (Cernăuţi) · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 23 November 2013 – 16 September 2014

   Archbishop of Khotyn

   Vicar of Chernivtsi (Cernăuţi) · Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 16 September 2014 – 17 August 2016

   Archbishop of Chernivtsi (Cernăuţi) and Bukovina

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 17 August 2016 – present

   Metropolitan of Chernivtsi (Cernăuţi) and Bukovina

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 30 July 2006 by:

• Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014
• Onufrii Berezovskii Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, b. 1944
• Sergii Fomin Metropolitan of Voronezh and Liski, b. 1949
• Ioannikii Kobzev Metropolitan of Luhansk and Alchevsk, 1938–2020
• Sergii Gensitskii Metropolitan of Ternopil and Kremenets, b. 1951
• Augustine Markevich Metropolitan of Bila Tserkva and Bohuslav, b. 1952
• Anatolyi Gladkyi Metropolitan of Poliske and Sarny, b. 1957
• John Siopko Metropolitan of Kherson and Taurida, b. 1964
• Paul Lebed Metropolitan of Vyshhorod and Chernobyl, b. 1961
• Mitrofan Yurchuk Metropolitan of Luhansk and Alchevsk, 1962–2021
• Ambrose Polikopa Metropolitan of Chernihiv and Novhorod-Siverskyi, b. 1943
• Theodore Gayun Metropolitan of Kamyanets-Podilskyi and Horodok, b. 1958
• Vladimir Moroz Metropolitan of Pochaiv, b. 1959

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. Meletii Yegorenko Metropolitan of Chernivtsi (Cernăuţi) and Bukovina consecrated 30 July 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 18

• 10 June 2007Irinei Semko Metropolitan of Nizhyn and Pryluky, 1963–2017
• 19 December 2007Alexander Drabynko Metropolitan of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi and Vishnevoye, b. 1977
• 23 December 2007Theodore Mamasuyev Metropolitan of Mukachevo and Uzhhorod, b. 1966
• 1 October 2009Irénée Rochon Archbishop of Ottawa and Canada, b. 1948
• 13 May 2012Anthony Kripak Archbishop of Putyvl, 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
• 29 September 2014Victor Bykov Archbishop of Artsyz, b. 1983
• 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 November 2016Benjamin Mezhinskii Archbishop of Khotyn, b. 1966
• 9 December 2019Paul Valuyskyi Archbishop of Bilovodsk, b. 1977
• 21 March 2020Laurus Berezovskyi Bishop of Irpin, b. 1986
• 15 May 2022Kleopa Migayesi Bishop of Novoselitskoye, b. 1977
• 4 December 2022Nikita Storozhuk Bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk and Kolomyya, b. 1980
• 3 January 2023Benjamin Voloshchuk Bishop of Boyarsk, b. 1961

Sources

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