Benjamin Voloshchuk

Life

Born

5 November 1961

Monastic tonsure

28 December 1993

Ordained deacon

7 January 1994

Ordained priest

7 January 1995

Made archimandrite

16 April 1998

Elected bishop

20 December 2022

Consecrated bishop

3 January 2023

Sees

1. 3 January 2023 – present

   Bishop of Boyarsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 3 January 2023 by:

• Onufrii Berezovskii Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, b. 1944
• Paul Lebed Metropolitan of Vyshhorod and Chernobyl, b. 1961
• Meletii Yegorenko Metropolitan of Chernivtsi (Cernăuţi) and Bukovina, b. 1962
• Anthony Pakanich Metropolitan of Boryspil and Brovary, b. 1967
• Clement Vecherya Metropolitan of Nizhyn and Pryluky, b. 1977
• Serapheim Demyaniv Archbishop of Yahotyn, b. 1953
• Benjamin Mezhinskii Archbishop of Khotyn, b. 1966
• Victor Kotsaba Metropolitan of Baryshivka and Starokostyantyniv, b. 1983
• Silvester Stoichev Bishop of Bilohorodka, b. 1980
• Laurus Berezovskyi Bishop of Irpin, b. 1986
• Mark Andryuk Bishop of Borodyanka, b. 1988
• Silouan Chornei/Ciornei Bishop of Hertsa, 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. Benjamin Voloshchuk Bishop of Boyarsk consecrated 3 January 2023
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

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata