Cassian Shostak

Life

Born

5 March 1968

Ordained deacon

11 September 1991

Monastic tonsure

19 September 1992

Ordained priest

29 November 1992

Made archimandrite

11 April 2001

Elected bishop

20 July 2016

Consecrated bishop

31 July 2016

Made archbishop

17 August 2021

Sees

1. 31 July 2016 – 17 August 2021

   Bishop of Ivanovo

   Vicar of Kyiv · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 17 August 2021 – present

   Archbishop of Ivanovo

   Vicar of Kyiv · Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 31 July 2016 by:

• Onufrii Berezovskii Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, b. 1944
• Anthony Pakanich Metropolitan of Boryspil and Brovary, b. 1967
• Agapit Bevtsik Metropolitan of Mohyliv-Podilskyi and Sharhorod, b. 1965
• Nicholas Grokh Archbishop of Bilohorodka, 1954–2017
• Panteleimon Bashchuk Archbishop of Bucha, b. 1961
• Serapheim Demyaniv Archbishop of Yahotyn, b. 1953
• Hilarion Shishkovskii Archbishop of Makariv, 1969–2018
• Feodosii Snigirov Metropolitan of Cherkasy and Kaniv, b. 1974
• Jonah Cherepanov Archbishop of Obukhiv, b. 1971
• 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
• Nicholas Pochtovyi Metropolitan of Kirovohrad and Novomyrhorod, b. 1970

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. Cassian Shostak Archbishop of Ivanovo consecrated 31 July 2016
2. Hilarion Shishkovskii Archbishop of Makariv, 1969–2018 consecrated 29 July 2007
3. Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014 consecrated 9 July 1966
4. Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978 consecrated 10 July 1960
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 2

• 9 December 2019Paul Valuyskyi Archbishop of Bilovodsk, b. 1977
• 27 August 2020Feodosii Marchenko Bishop of Ladan, b. 1982

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata