Laurus Berezovskyi

Life

Born

28 January 1986

Monastic tonsure

24 March 2016

Ordained deacon

3 April 2016

Ordained priest

12 March 2017

Made archimandrite

24 March 2019

Elected bishop

18 March 2020

Consecrated bishop

21 March 2020

Sees

1. 21 March 2020 – present

   Bishop of Irpin

   Vicar of Kyiv · Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 21 March 2020 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
• Meletii Yegorenko Metropolitan of Chernivtsi (Cernăuţi) and Bukovina, b. 1962
• Serapheim Demyaniv Archbishop of Yahotyn, b. 1953
• Longin Zhar Metropolitan of Bancheny, b. 1965
• Eveseviy Dudka Metropolitan of Shepetivka and Slavuta, b. 1964
• Benjamin Mezhinskii Archbishop of Khotyn, b. 1966
• Victor Kotsaba Metropolitan of Baryshivka and Starokostyantyniv, b. 1983
• Silvester Stoichev Bishop of Bilohorodka, b. 1980
• Andrew Vasilashku Archbishop of Petropavl, b. 1979

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. Laurus Berezovskyi Bishop of Irpin consecrated 21 March 2020
2. Meletii Yegorenko Metropolitan of Chernivtsi (Cernăuţi) and Bukovina, b. 1962 consecrated 30 July 2006
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 13

• 27 August 2020Feodosii Marchenko Bishop of Ladan, b. 1982
• 28 August 2020Irinarkh Tymchuk Archbishop of Novopskov, b. 1987
• 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
• 2 January 2022Aleksii Ovsyannikov Bishop of Dzhankoi and Razdolne, b. 1973
• 15 May 2022Kleopa Migayesi Bishop of Novoselitskoye, b. 1977
• 16 May 2022Feodosii Mintenko Bishop of Gorodishche, b. 1971
• 27 November 2022John Ternovetskii Bishop of Izyum and Kupyansk, b. 1954
• 4 December 2022Nikita Storozhuk Bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk and Kolomyya, b. 1980
• 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

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