Victor Bykov

Life

Born

20 April 1983

Ordained deacon

8 January 2003

Monastic tonsure

24 November 2003

Ordained priest

30 November 2003

Made hegumen

2005

Elected bishop

16 September 2014

Consecrated bishop

29 September 2014

Made archbishop

29 September 2019

Sees

1. 29 September 2014 – 29 September 2019

   Bishop of Artsyz

   Vicar of Odessa · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 29 September 2019 – present

   Archbishop of Artsyz

   Vicar of Odessa · Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 29 September 2014 by:

• Onufrii Berezovskii Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, b. 1944
• Agafangel Savvin Metropolitan of Odessa and Izmail, b. 1938
• Hilarion Shukalo Metropolitan of Donetsk and Mariupol, b. 1951
• Panteleimon Kalpakides Metropolitan of Veroia, Naousa and Kampania, b. 1945
• Jonathan Eletskikh Metropolitan of Tulchyn and Bratslav, b. 1949
• Bartholomew Vashchuk Metropolitan of Rivne and Ostroh, 1953–2021
• Anthony Fialko Metropolitan of Makariv, b. 1946
• Onufrii Lyogkii Metropolitan of Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv, b. 1970
• Alexander Drabynko Metropolitan of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi and Vishnevoye, b. 1977
• John Siopko Metropolitan of Kherson and Taurida, b. 1964
• Meletii Yegorenko Metropolitan of Chernivtsi (Cernăuţi) and Bukovina, b. 1962
• Aleksii Grokha Metropolitan of Balta and Ananiv, b. 1972
• Mitrofan Nikitin Metropolitan of Horlivka and Slovyansk, b. 1976
• Irinei Semko Metropolitan of Nizhyn and Pryluky, 1963–2017
• Panteleimon Lugovoi Metropolitan of Uman and Zvenigorod, b. 1967
• Evlogii Gutchenko Metropolitan of Sumy and Okhtyrka, b. 1967
• Alexander Nesterchuk Archbishop of Horodnytsa, b. 1950
• Alipii Pogrebnyak Archbishop of Krasnyi Lyman, 1945–2021
• Peter Musteață Archbishop of Ungheni and Nisporeni, b. 1967
• Panteleimon Povoroznyuk Metropolitan of Luhansk and Alchevsk, b. 1973
• Alipii Kozolii Metropolitan of Dzhankoi and Razdolne, 1971–2021
• Filaret Kucherov Metropolitan of Lviv and Halych, b. 1972
• Jonah Cherepanov Archbishop of Obukhiv, b. 1971
• Longin Zhar Metropolitan of Bancheny, b. 1965
• Roman Kimovich Metropolitan of Konotop and Hlukhiv, b. 1971
• Arkadii Taranov Archbishop of Rovenki and Sverdlovsk, b. 1957
• Diodor Vasilchuk Archbishop of Yuzhne, b. 1979
• Eveseviy Dudka Metropolitan of Shepetivka and Slavuta, b. 1964

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. Victor Bykov Archbishop of Artsyz consecrated 29 September 2014
2. Agafangel Savvin Metropolitan of Odessa and Izmail, b. 1938 consecrated 16 November 1975
3. Sergii Petrov Metropolitan of Odessa and Kherson, 1924–1990 consecrated 13 March 1960
4. Boris Vik Metropolitan of Kherson and Odessa, 1906–1965 consecrated 2 April 1944
5. Sergii Stragorodskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1867–1944 consecrated 25 February 1901
6. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
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 2

• 15 November 2015Sergii Mikhailenko Archbishop of Bolhrad, b. 1975
• 18 June 2018Gedeon Kharon Bishop of Makariv, b. 1960

Sources

Also in: Wikidata