Arkadii Taranov

Life

Born

11 March 1957

Monastic tonsure

8 March 1982

Ordained deacon

22 March 1982

Ordained priest

6 January 1983

Made archimandrite

1996

Elected bishop

20 July 2012

Consecrated bishop

4 August 2012

Sees

1. 4 August 2012 – 25 June 2019

   Bishop of Ovidiopol

   Vicar of Odessa · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 25 June 2019 – 17 August 2021

   Archbishop of Ovidiopol

   Vicar of Odessa · Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 17 August 2021

   Bishop of Rovenki and Sverdlovsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 4 August 2012 by:

• Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014
• Agafangel Savvin Metropolitan of Odessa and Izmail, b. 1938
• Anthony Pakanich Metropolitan of Boryspil and Brovary, b. 1967
• Ambrose Polikopa Metropolitan of Chernihiv and Novhorod-Siverskyi, b. 1943
• Nikodim Horenko Metropolitan of Zhytomyr, b. 1972
• Serapheim Demyaniv Archbishop of Yahotyn, b. 1953
• Alexander Drabynko Metropolitan of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi and Vishnevoye, b. 1977
• Aleksii Grokha Metropolitan of Balta and Ananiv, b. 1972
• Evlogii Gutchenko Metropolitan of Sumy and Okhtyrka, b. 1967
• Hilarion Shishkovskii Archbishop of Makariv, 1969–2018
• Panteleimon Povoroznyuk Metropolitan of Luhansk and Alchevsk, b. 1973
• Feodosii Snigirov Metropolitan of Cherkasy and Kaniv, b. 1974

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. Arkadii Taranov Archbishop of Rovenki and Sverdlovsk consecrated 4 August 2012
2. Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014 consecrated 9 July 1966
3. Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978 consecrated 10 July 1960
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 2

• 29 September 2014Victor Bykov Archbishop of Artsyz, b. 1983
• 15 November 2015Sergii Mikhailenko Archbishop of Bolhrad, b. 1975

Sources

Also in: Wikidata