Clement Kushch

Life

Born

9 April 1969

Ordained deacon

8 November 1996

Ordained priest

28 February 1997

Monastic tonsure

4 July 2000

Consecrated bishop

23 July 2000

Made archbishop

23 January 2012

Sees

1. 23 July 2000 – 23 January 2012

   Bishop of Simferopol and the Crimea

   Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyiv Patriarchate

2. 23 January 2012 – 15 December 2018

   Archbishop of Simferopol and the Crimea

   Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyiv Patriarchate

3. 15 December 2018 – present

   Archbishop of Simferopol and the Crimea

   Orthodox Church of Ukraine

Consecration

Consecrated 23 July 2000 by:

• Filaret Denysenko Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus'-Ukraine, b. 1929

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. Clement Kushch Archbishop of Simferopol and the Crimea consecrated 23 July 2000
2. Filaret Denysenko Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus'-Ukraine, b. 1929 consecrated 4 February 1962
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 4

• 17 December 2014Fotiy Davydenko Bishop of Zaporizhzhya and Melitopol, b. 1980
• 4 December 2019Nikodim Kulygin Bishop of Henichesk, b. 1968
• 13 February 2022Feognost Bodoryak Bishop of Bohorodchany, b. 1989
• 2 June 2022Anthony Firley Bishop of Chernihiv and Nizhyn, b. 1978

Sources

Also in: Wikidata