Roman Blashchuk/Balashchuk

Life

Born

24 March 1953

Ordained deacon

10 December 1977

Ordained priest

16 April 1978

Monastic tonsure

21 May 1990

Consecrated bishop

22 May 1990

Made archbishop

5 June 1992

Made metropolitan

15 February 2005

Sees

1. 22 May 1990 – 5 June 1992

   Bishop of Chernihiv and Sumy

   Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church

2. 5 June 1992 – 16 September 1992

   Archbishop of Chernihiv and Sumy

   Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church

3. 16 September 1992 – October 1995

   Bishop of Rivne and Ostroh

   Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyiv Patriarchate

4. October 1995 – 14 November 1995

   Bishop

   Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church

5. 14 November 1995 – 15 February 2005

   Bishop of Vinnytsya and Bratslav

   Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church

6. 15 February 2005 – June 2011

   Metropolitan of Vinnytsya and Bratslav

   Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church

7. June 2011 – 15 December 2018

   Metropolitan

   Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church

8. 15 December 2018 – present

   Metropolitan of Vinnytsya and Bratslav

   Orthodox Church of Ukraine

Consecration

Consecrated 22 May 1990 by:

• John Bodnarchuk Metropolitan of Lutsk and Volyn, 1929–1994
• Basil Bodnarchuk Metropolitan of Ternopil and Bucha, 1925–2006
• Andrew Abramchuk Metropolitan of Halych and Ivano-Frankivsk, b. 1949
• Filaret Denysenko Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus'-Ukraine, b. 1929
• Anthony Masendich Bishop of Barnaul and Altai, 1961–2001
• Volodymyr Romanyuk Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus'-Ukraine, 1925–1995
• Sofroniy Vlasov Bishop of Dubăsari and Transnistria, d. 2011

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. Roman Blashchuk/Balashchuk Metropolitan of Vinnytsya and Bratslav consecrated 22 May 1990
2. John Bodnarchuk Metropolitan of Lutsk and Volyn, 1929–1994 consecrated 23 October 1977
3. Nicholas Yurik Metropolitan of Lviv and Ternopil, 1910–1984 consecrated 31 October 1965
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 8

• 12 April 1992Peter Petrus Bishop of Lviv and Yavorivsk, b. 1956
• 6 June 1992Roman Popenko Bishop of Nikolayev and Kherson, 1963–1997
• 6 June 1996Peter Brook de Tral Archbishop of Kaffa and Gotiya, 1971–2011
• 17 June 1996John Modzalevskii Archbishop of Uman, b. 1970
• 7 July 1996John Boychuk Bishop of Kolomyya and Kosiv, b. 1957
• 8 November 1998Yakiv Makarchuk Archbishop of Drohobych and Sambir, b. 1952
• 20 March 2004Basil Kostyuk Former Bishop of Brooklyn and Baranovich, b. 1971
• 3 November 2005Hilarion Savchuk Bishop of Cherkasy and Kirovohrad, 1969–2015

Sources

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