Irinei Semko

Life

Born

11 June 1963

Monastic tonsure

26 February 1985

Ordained deacon

6 April 1985

Ordained priest

30 November 1986

Consecrated bishop

10 June 2007

Made archbishop

28 August 2014

Made metropolitan

28 July 2017

Died

23 September 2017

Sees

1. 10 June 2007 – 2008

   Bishop of Nizhyn and Baturyn

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 2008 – 28 August 2014

   Bishop of Nizhyn and Pryluky

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 28 August 2014 – 28 July 2017

   Archbishop of Nizhyn and Pryluky

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 28 July 2017 – 23 September 2017

   Metropolitan of Nizhyn and Pryluky

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 10 June 2007 by:

• Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014
• Agafangel Savvin Metropolitan of Odessa and Izmail, b. 1938
• Nathaniel Kalaidzhiev Metropolitan of Nevrokop, 1952–2013
• Ioannikii Kobzev Metropolitan of Luhansk and Alchevsk, 1938–2020
• Onufrii Berezovskii Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, b. 1944
• Mark Petrovtsy Metropolitan of Khust and Vynohradiv, b. 1951
• Sofroniy Dmytruk Metropolitan of Cherkasy and Kaniv, 1940–2020
• Anatolyi Gladkyi Metropolitan of Poliske and Sarny, b. 1957
• Paul Lebed Metropolitan of Vyshhorod and Chernobyl, b. 1961
• Mitrofan Yurchuk Metropolitan of Luhansk and Alchevsk, 1962–2021
• Ambrose Polikopa Metropolitan of Chernihiv and Novhorod-Siverskyi, b. 1943
• Job Smakouz Archbishop of Shumsk, b. 1964
• Agapit Gorachek Archbishop of Stuttgart, 1955–2020
• Longin Korchagin Metropolitan of Simbirsk and Novospasskoye, b. 1961
• Luke Kovalenko Metropolitan of Zaporizhzhya and Melitopol, b. 1971
• Meletii Yegorenko Metropolitan of Chernivtsi (Cernăuţi) and Bukovina, b. 1962
• Anthony Pakanich Metropolitan of Boryspil and Brovary, b. 1967

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. Irinei Semko Metropolitan of Nizhyn and Pryluky consecrated 10 June 2007
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 18

• 11 June 2007Vladimir Melnik Metropolitan of Volodymyr-Volynskyi, b. 1968
• 19 October 2007Panteleimon Lugovoi Metropolitan of Uman and Zvenigorod, b. 1967
• 19 December 2007Alexander Drabynko Metropolitan of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi and Vishnevoye, b. 1977
• 23 December 2007Theodore Mamasuyev Metropolitan of Mukachevo and Uzhhorod, b. 1966
• 18 May 2008Anthony Borovik Former Bishop of Ugolskii, b. 1968
• 16 November 2008Alexander Nesterchuk Archbishop of Horodnytsa, b. 1950
• 29 November 2009Tikhon Zhilyakov Bishop of Kremenchuk and Lubny, 1968–2011
• 13 December 2009Evlogii Patsan Archbishop of Novomoskovsk, b. 1970
• 25 December 2010Nikodim Baranovskii Metropolitan of Severodonetsk and Starobilsk, b. 1975
• 18 June 2011Dionisiy Konstantynov Bishop of Shepetivka and Slavuta, b. 1960
• 10 September 2011Jonah Cherepanov Archbishop of Obukhiv, b. 1971
• 19 December 2011Pakhomii Bruskov Bishop of Borovichi and Pestovo, b. 1976
• 22 May 2012Longin Zhar Metropolitan of Bancheny, b. 1965
• 23 July 2012Clement Vecherya Metropolitan of Nizhyn and Pryluky, b. 1977
• 30 August 2012Damian Davydov Archbishop of Fastiv, b. 1959
• 29 September 2014Victor Bykov Archbishop of Artsyz, b. 1983
• 28 December 2014Tikhon Chizhevskii Bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk and Kolomyya, 1947–2018
• 5 April 2015John Vakhnyuk Archbishop of Zolotonosha, b. 1968

Sources

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