Platon Udovenko

Life

Born

17 November 1940

Monastic tonsure

14 April 1971

Ordained deacon

17 April 1971

Ordained priest

12 September 1971

Made archimandrite

3 November 1972

Consecrated bishop

16 December 1973

Made archbishop

1977

Made metropolitan

29 February 2004

Retired

25 July 2024

Sees

1. 16 December 1973 – 1977

   Bishop of Argentina and South America

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1977 – 1980

   Archbishop of Argentina and South America

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 1980 – 1984

   Archbishop of Sverdlovsk and Kurgan

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 1984 – 1993

   Archbishop of Yaroslavl and Rostov

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 1993 – 29 February 2004

   Archbishop of Argentina and South America

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 29 February 2004 – 26 July 2012

   Metropolitan of Argentina and South America

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 20 December 2012 – 25 July 2024

   Metropolitan of Feodosiya and Kerch

   Patriarchate of Moscow

8. 25 July 2024 – present

   Former Metropolitan of Feodosiya and Kerch

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 16 December 1973 by:

• Pimen Izvekov Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1910–1990
• Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978
• Filaret Denysenko Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus'-Ukraine, b. 1929
• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• Serapheim Nikitin Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna, 1905–1979
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Aleksii Konoplyov Metropolitan of Kalinin and Kashin, 1910–1988
• Nikodim Rusnak Metropolitan of Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv, 1921–2011
• Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003
• Savva Babinets Archbishop of Poltava and Kremenchuk, 1926–1992
• Nicholas Bychkovskii Archbishop of Perm and Solikamsk, 1893–1981

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 10 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Platon Udovenko Metropolitan of Feodosiya and Kerch consecrated 16 December 1973
2. Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978 consecrated 10 July 1960
3. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
4. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
5. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
6. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
7. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
8. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
9. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
10. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
11. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 4

• 30 January 1983Sergii Fomin Metropolitan of Voronezh and Liski, b. 1949
• 4 December 1988Victor Oleinik Metropolitan of Tver and Kashin, b. 1940
• 3 April 1993Michael Raskovalov Bishop of Kurgan and Shadrinsk, 1953–2008
• 4 April 1993John Popov Metropolitan of Belgorod and Staryi Oskol, b. 1960

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata