Tikhon Sofiichuk

Life

Born

1 January 1965

Monastic tonsure

20 March 1996

Ordained deacon

31 March 1996

Ordained priest

2 June 1996

Made archimandrite

2010

Elected bishop

18 October 2016

Consecrated bishop

9 December 2016

Made archbishop

17 August 2023

Made metropolitan

17 August 2024

Sees

1. 9 December 2016 – 23 November 2022

   Bishop of Hostomel

   Vicar of Kyiv · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 23 November 2022 – 17 August 2023

   Bishop of Romena and Buryn

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 17 August 2023 – 17 August 2024

   Archbishop of Romena and Buryn

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 17 August 2024 – present

   Metropolitan of Romena and Buryn

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 9 December 2016 by:

• Onufrii Berezovskii Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, b. 1944

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 12 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Tikhon Sofiichuk Metropolitan of Romena and Buryn consecrated 9 December 2016
2. Onufrii Berezovskii Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, b. 1944 consecrated 9 December 1990
3. Filaret Denysenko Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus'-Ukraine, b. 1929 consecrated 4 February 1962
4. Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978 consecrated 10 July 1960
5. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
6. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
7. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
8. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
9. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
10. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
11. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
12. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
13. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 10

• 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
• 17 June 2018Spyridon Golovastov Archbishop of Dobropole, b. 1975
• 19 December 2018Dionisii Pilipchuk Archbishop of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi, b. 1979
• 23 December 2018Andrew Vasilashku Archbishop of Petropavl, b. 1979
• 13 April 2019Ambrose Vainagii Archbishop of Zhurivka, b. 1985
• 9 December 2019Paul Valuyskyi Archbishop of Bilovodsk, b. 1977
• 13 December 2019Spyridon Romanov Archbishop of Vishnevka, b. 1980
• 17 December 2019Nikodim Pustovgar Archbishop of Lyubech, b. 1980

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata