Pimen Voyat

Life

Born

25 June 1985

Monastic tonsure

25 April 2013

Ordained deacon

28 April 2013

Ordained priest

6 May 2013

Made archimandrite

8 November 2015

Elected bishop

14 March 2018

Consecrated bishop

25 March 2018

Made metropolitan

17 August 2025

Sees

1. 25 March 2018 – 16 November 2021

   Bishop of Dubna

   Vicar of Rivne · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 16 September 2021 – 16 November 2021

   Locum tenens of Rivne and Ostroh

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 16 November 2021 – 17 August 2022

   Bishop of Rivne and Ostroh

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 17 August 2022 – 17 August 2025

   Archbishop of Rivne and Ostroh

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 17 August 2025 – present

   Metropolitan of Rivne and Ostroh

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 25 March 2018 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
• Jonathan Eletskikh Metropolitan of Tulchyn and Bratslav, b. 1949
• Bartholomew Vashchuk Metropolitan of Rivne and Ostroh, 1953–2021
• Panteleimon Bashchuk Archbishop of Bucha, b. 1961
• Panteleimon Lugovoi Metropolitan of Uman and Zvenigorod, b. 1967
• Nikodim Baranovskii Metropolitan of Severodonetsk and Starobilsk, b. 1975
• Feodosii Snigirov Metropolitan of Cherkasy and Kaniv, b. 1974
• Clement Vecherya Metropolitan of Nizhyn and Pryluky, b. 1977
• Varsonofii Stolyar Metropolitan of Vinnytsya and Bar, b. 1972
• Damian Davydov Archbishop of Fastiv, b. 1959
• Tikhon Sofiichuk Metropolitan of Romena and Buryn, b. 1965
• Victor Kotsaba Metropolitan of Baryshivka and Starokostyantyniv, b. 1983
• Silvester Stoichev Bishop of Bilohorodka, b. 1980
• Sergii Anitsoi Metropolitan of Tulchyn and Bratslav, b. 1979

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. Pimen Voyat Metropolitan of Rivne and Ostroh consecrated 25 March 2018
2. Jonathan Eletskikh Metropolitan of Tulchyn and Bratslav, b. 1949 consecrated 23 April 1989
3. Nikodim Rusnak Metropolitan of Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv, 1921–2011 consecrated 10 August 1961
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 3

• 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

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru