Varsonofii Stolyar

Life

Born

1 August 1972

Ordained deacon

17 January 1999

Monastic tonsure

1 April 1999

Ordained priest

7 April 1999

Made hegumen

7 April 2001

Made archimandrite

14 March 2004

Elected bishop

25 August 2012

Consecrated bishop

28 August 2012

Made archbishop

17 August 2018

Made metropolitan

17 August 2019

Sees

1. 28 August 2012 – 17 August 2018

   Bishop of Borodyanka

   Vicar of Kyiv · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 17 August 2018 – 17 December 2018

   Archbishop of Borodyanka

   Vicar of Kyiv · Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 17 December 2018 – 17 August 2019

   Archbishop of Vinnytsya and Bar

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 17 August 2019 – present

   Metropolitan of Vinnytsya and Bar

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 28 August 2012 by:

• Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014

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. Varsonofii Stolyar Metropolitan of Vinnytsya and Bar consecrated 28 August 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 19

• 30 August 2012Damian Davydov Archbishop of Fastiv, b. 1959
• 4 September 2012Aleksii Shpakov Metropolitan of Voznesensk and Pervomaiskyi, b. 1975
• 23 December 2012Bogolep Goncharenko Metropolitan of Oleksandriya and Svitlovodsk, b. 1978
• 17 March 2013Nicholas Pochtovyi Metropolitan of Kirovohrad and Novomyrhorod, b. 1970
• 29 September 2013Diodor Vasilchuk Archbishop of Yuzhne, b. 1979
• 28 December 2014Tikhon Chizhevskii Bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk and Kolomyya, 1947–2018
• 6 December 2015Benjamin Pogrebnoi Archbishop of Novi Sanzhary, b. 1979
• 31 July 2016Cassian Shostak Archbishop of Ivanovo, b. 1968
• 13 November 2016Benjamin Mezhinskii Archbishop of Khotyn, b. 1966
• 5 June 2017Victor Kotsaba Metropolitan of Baryshivka and Starokostyantyniv, b. 1983
• 24 December 2017Silvester Stoichev Bishop of Bilohorodka, b. 1980
• 24 March 2018Sergii Anitsoi Metropolitan of Tulchyn and Bratslav, b. 1979
• 25 March 2018Pimen Voyat Metropolitan of Rivne and Ostroh, b. 1985
• 27 September 2018Nestor Donenko Bishop of Yalta, b. 1958
• 9 December 2019Paul Valuyskyi Archbishop of Bilovodsk, b. 1977
• 23 August 2020Silouan Chornei/Ciornei Bishop of Hertsa, b. 1980
• 27 August 2020Feodosii Marchenko Bishop of Ladan, b. 1982
• 6 June 2021Anthony Pukhkan Bishop of Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi, b. 1974
• 16 May 2022Feodosii Mintenko Bishop of Gorodishche, b. 1971

Sources

Also in: Wikidata