Andrew Abramchuk

Life

Born

21 January 1949

Ordained priest

1974

Defrocked

1990 · Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecrated bishop

7 April 1990

Made metropolitan

7 April 1990

Sees

1. 7 April 1990 – 25 June 1992

   Metropolitan of Halych and Ivano-Frankivsk

   Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church

2. 25 June 1992 – 20 October 1995

   Metropolitan of Halych and Ivano-Frankivsk

   Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyiv Patriarchate

3. 20 October 1995 – 15 December 2018

   Metropolitan of Halych and Ivano-Frankivsk

   Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church

4. 15 December 2018 – present

   Metropolitan of Halych and Ivano-Frankivsk

   Orthodox Church of Ukraine

Consecration

Consecrated 7 April 1990 by:

• John Bodnarchuk Metropolitan of Lutsk and Volyn, 1929–1994
• Basil Bodnarchuk Metropolitan of Ternopil and Bucha, 1925–2006

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. Andrew Abramchuk Metropolitan of Halych and Ivano-Frankivsk consecrated 7 April 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 5

• 28 April 1990Daniel Kovalchuk Metropolitan of Chernivtsi (Cernăuţi) and Bukovina, b. 1949
• 22 May 1990Roman Blashchuk/Balashchuk Metropolitan of Vinnytsya and Bratslav, b. 1953
• 6 June 1996Peter Brook de Tral Archbishop of Kaffa and Gotiya, 1971–2011
• 7 July 1996John Boychuk Bishop of Kolomyya and Kosiv, b. 1957
• 15 February 2018Paul Mysak Bishop of Kolomyya, b. 1971