Stephen Neshcheret

Life

Born

3 January 1966

Monastic tonsure

4 January 1987

Ordained deacon

14 January 1987

Ordained priest

3 June 1987

Made hegumen

13 January 1994

Made archimandrite

14 October 1997

Elected bishop

24 December 2004

Consecrated bishop

30 January 2005

Made archbishop

1 February 2018

Sees

1. 30 January 2005 – 7 June 2012

   Bishop of Turaŭ and Mazyr

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 7 June 2012 – 1 February 2018

   Bishop of Homieĺ and Zhlobin

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 1 February 2018 – present

   Archbishop of Homieĺ and Zhlobin

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 30 January 2005 by:

• Filaret Vakhromeyev Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk, 1935–2021
• Anthony Moskalenko Archbishop of the Urals and Atyrau, 1940–2025
• Dimitrii Drozdov Archbishop of Vitebsk and Orsha, b. 1953
• Stephen Korzun Archbishop of Pinsk and Luninets, 1944–2022
• Aristarkh Stankevich Archbishop of Homieĺ and Zhlobin, 1941–2012
• Peter Karpusyuk Bishop of Dyatlava, 1959–2020
• Artemii Kishchenko Archbishop of Hrodna and Vaŭkavysk, 1952–2023
• Gurii Apalko Archbishop of Navahrudak and Slonim, b. 1956
• Feodosii Bilchenko Archbishop of Polatsk and Hlybokaye, b. 1943
• Ambrose Polikopa Metropolitan of Chernihiv and Novhorod-Siverskyi, b. 1943
• Panteleimon Bashchuk Archbishop of Bucha, b. 1961
• Sofronii Yushchuk Archbishop of Mahilioŭ and Mstsislaw, b. 1951
• John Khoma Archbishop of Brest and Kobryn, b. 1963

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. Stephen Neshcheret Archbishop of Homieĺ and Zhlobin consecrated 30 January 2005
2. Filaret Vakhromeyev Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk, 1935–2021 consecrated 24 October 1965
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 5

• 13 December 2009Evlogii Patsan Archbishop of Novomoskovsk, b. 1970
• 4 March 2012Ambrose Munteanu Bishop of Bogorodsk, b. 1973
• 1 July 2012Nikon Fomin Metropolitan of Astrakhan and Kamyzyak, b. 1963
• 6 October 2019Ambrose Shevtsov Bishop of Borisov and Maryina Horka, b. 1975
• 5 June 2022Evsevii Tyukhlov Bishop of Drutsk, b. 1975

Sources

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