Longin Zhar

Life

Born

19 August 1965

Ordained deacon

18 January 1990

Ordained priest

19 January 1990

Monastic tonsure

30 April 1996

Made archimandrite

16 July 2008

Elected bishop

8 May 2012

Consecrated bishop

22 May 2012

Made archbishop

17 August 2017

Sees

1. 22 May 2012 – 17 August 2017

   Bishop of Bancheny

   Vicar of Chernivtsi (Cernăuţi) · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 17 August 2017 – 17 August 2020

   Archbishop of Bancheny

   Vicar of Chernivtsi (Cernăuţi) · Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 17 August 2020 – present

   Metropolitan of Bancheny

   Vicar of Chernivtsi (Cernăuţi) · Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 22 May 2012 by:

• Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014
• Onufrii Berezovskii Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, b. 1944
• Paul Lebed Metropolitan of Vyshhorod and Chernobyl, b. 1961
• Sergii Gensitskii Metropolitan of Ternopil and Kremenets, b. 1951
• Vissarion Stretovich Metropolitan of Ovruch and Korosten, 1953–2026
• Vladimir Moroz Metropolitan of Pochaiv, b. 1959
• Mark Petrovtsy Metropolitan of Khust and Vynohradiv, b. 1951
• Mitrofan Yurchuk Metropolitan of Luhansk and Alchevsk, 1962–2021
• Anthony Pakanich Metropolitan of Boryspil and Brovary, b. 1967
• Theodore Gayun Metropolitan of Kamyanets-Podilskyi and Horodok, b. 1958
• Augustine Markevich Metropolitan of Bila Tserkva and Bohuslav, b. 1952
• Onufrii Lyogkii Metropolitan of Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv, b. 1970
• Serapheim Demyaniv Archbishop of Yahotyn, b. 1953
• Alexander Drabynko Metropolitan of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi and Vishnevoye, b. 1977
• Alexander Nesterchuk Archbishop of Horodnytsa, b. 1950
• Agapit Bevtsik Metropolitan of Mohyliv-Podilskyi and Sharhorod, b. 1965
• Meletii Yegorenko Metropolitan of Chernivtsi (Cernăuţi) and Bukovina, b. 1962
• Irinei Semko Metropolitan of Nizhyn and Pryluky, 1963–2017
• Hilarion Shishkovskii Archbishop of Makariv, 1969–2018
• Panteleimon Lugovoi Metropolitan of Uman and Zvenigorod, b. 1967
• Panteleimon Povoroznyuk Metropolitan of Luhansk and Alchevsk, b. 1973
• Feodosii Snigirov Metropolitan of Cherkasy and Kaniv, b. 1974
• Jonah Cherepanov Archbishop of Obukhiv, b. 1971

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. Longin Zhar Metropolitan of Bancheny consecrated 22 May 2012
2. Mark Petrovtsy Metropolitan of Khust and Vynohradiv, b. 1951 consecrated 28 July 1988
3. Nikodim Rusnak Metropolitan of Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv, 1921–2011 consecrated 10 August 1961
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 7

• 28 September 2014Eveseviy Dudka Metropolitan of Shepetivka and Slavuta, b. 1964
• 29 September 2014Victor Bykov Archbishop of Artsyz, b. 1983
• 5 August 2015Nathaniel Krykota Metropolitan of Volyn and Lutsk, b. 1959
• 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

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

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