Victor Kotsaba

Life

Born

5 June 1983

Ordained deacon

20 July 2008

Ordained priest

28 July 2008

Monastic tonsure

20 March 2015

Made archimandrite

17 May 2015

Elected bishop

27 May 2017

Consecrated bishop

5 June 2017

Made archbishop

17 August 2022

Made metropolitan

17 August 2024

Sees

1. 5 June 2017 – 17 August 2022

   Bishop of Baryshivka

   Vicar of Kyiv · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 17 August 2022 – 3 April 2023

   Archbishop of Baryshivka

   Vicar of Kyiv · Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 3 April 2023 – 17 August 2024

   Archbishop of Baryshivka and Starokostyantyniv

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 17 August 2024 – present

   Metropolitan of Baryshivka and Starokostyantyniv

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 5 June 2017 by:

• Onufrii Berezovskii Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, b. 1944
• Paul Lebed Metropolitan of Vyshhorod and Chernobyl, b. 1961
• Anthony Pakanich Metropolitan of Boryspil and Brovary, b. 1967
• Anthony Fialko Metropolitan of Makariv, b. 1946
• Luke Kovalenko Metropolitan of Zaporizhzhya and Melitopol, b. 1971
• Nicholas Grokh Archbishop of Bilohorodka, 1954–2017
• Elisei Ivanov Metropolitan of Izyum and Kupyansk, b. 1973
• Nikodim Horenko Metropolitan of Zhytomyr, b. 1972
• Panteleimon Lugovoi Metropolitan of Uman and Zvenigorod, b. 1967
• Serapheim Demyaniv Archbishop of Yahotyn, b. 1953
• Alexander Nesterchuk Archbishop of Horodnytsa, b. 1950
• Filaret Kucherov Metropolitan of Lviv and Halych, b. 1972
• Feodosii Snigirov Metropolitan of Cherkasy and Kaniv, b. 1974
• Roman Kimovich Metropolitan of Konotop and Hlukhiv, b. 1971
• Clement Vecherya Metropolitan of Nizhyn and Pryluky, b. 1977
• Ephrem Yarinko Bishop of Berdyansk and Primorye, b. 1978
• Varsonofii Stolyar Metropolitan of Vinnytsya and Bar, b. 1972
• Damian Davydov Archbishop of Fastiv, b. 1959
• Aleksii Shpakov Metropolitan of Voznesensk and Pervomaiskyi, b. 1975
• Nicholas Pochtovyi Metropolitan of Kirovohrad and Novomyrhorod, b. 1970
• Anthony Doronin Archbishop of Hrodna and Vaŭkavysk, b. 1980

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 12 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Victor Kotsaba Metropolitan of Baryshivka and Starokostyantyniv consecrated 5 June 2017
2. Ephrem Yarinko Bishop of Berdyansk and Primorye, b. 1978 consecrated 5 August 2012
3. Mark Petrovtsy Metropolitan of Khust and Vynohradiv, b. 1951 consecrated 28 July 1988
4. Nikodim Rusnak Metropolitan of Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv, 1921–2011 consecrated 10 August 1961
5. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
6. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
7. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
8. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
9. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
10. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
11. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
12. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
13. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 27

• 24 December 2017Silvester Stoichev Bishop of Bilohorodka, b. 1980
• 24 March 2018Sergii Anitsoi Metropolitan of Tulchyn and Bratslav, b. 1979
• 25 March 2018Pimen Voyat Metropolitan of Rivne and Ostroh, b. 1985
• 17 June 2018Spyridon Golovastov Archbishop of Dobropole, b. 1975
• 18 June 2018Gedeon Kharon Bishop of Makariv, b. 1960
• 27 September 2018Nestor Donenko Bishop of Yalta, b. 1958
• 19 December 2018Dionisii Pilipchuk Archbishop of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi, b. 1979
• 23 December 2018Andrew Vasilashku Archbishop of Petropavl, b. 1979
• 6 April 2019Ambrose Archbishop of Volnovakha, b. 1980
• 7 April 2019Symeon Golubka Archbishop of Ugolskii, b. 1968
• 13 April 2019Ambrose Vainagii Archbishop of Zhurivka, b. 1985
• 8 December 2019Kallinik Chernyshyov Bishop of Bakhchysarai, b. 1977
• 9 December 2019Paul Valuyskyi Archbishop of Bilovodsk, b. 1977
• 13 December 2019Spyridon Romanov Archbishop of Vishnevka, b. 1980
• 17 December 2019Nikodim Pustovgar Archbishop of Lyubech, b. 1980
• 21 March 2020Laurus Berezovskyi Bishop of Irpin, b. 1986
• 27 August 2020Feodosii Marchenko Bishop of Ladan, b. 1982
• 28 August 2020Irinarkh Tymchuk Archbishop of Novopskov, b. 1987
• 13 December 2020Barnabas Hladun Bishop of Novyi Buh, b. 1964
• 6 June 2021Anthony Pukhkan Bishop of Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi, b. 1974
• 13 June 2021Paisii Shinkaryov Archbishop of Konstantinovskii, b. 1988
• 28 August 2021Agafon Opanasenko Bishop of Koktebel, b. 1977
• 15 May 2022Kleopa Migayesi Bishop of Novoselitskoye, b. 1977
• 16 May 2022Feodosii Mintenko Bishop of Gorodishche, b. 1971
• 11 December 2022Yakov Galandzovskii Bishop of Drohobych, b. 1977
• 13 December 2022Hilarion Gavrilets Bishop of Svalyava, b. 1988
• 3 January 2023Benjamin Voloshchuk Bishop of Boyarsk, b. 1961

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata