Varsonofii Semenchuk

Life

Born

1995

Consecrated bishop

19 January 2013

Sees

1. 19 January 2013 – 2013

   Chor-Bishop

   Patriarchate of the Russian True Orthodox Catacomb Church

2. 8 February 2013 – 2014

   Bishop of Borispolskii Rossiiskii

   Russian Orthodox Autocephalous Church (Barsanuphios)

3. 2014 – present

   Bishop of Ekaterinburg and Zabaikal

   Patriarchate of the Russian True Orthodox Catacomb Church

Consecration

Consecrated 19 January 2013 by:

• Benedict Molchanov Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, b. 1975

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 15 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Varsonofii Semenchuk Bishop of Ekaterinburg and Zabaikal consecrated 19 January 2013
2. Benedict Molchanov Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, b. 1975 consecrated 16 January 2000
3. Stephen Linitskii Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Mozhaisk, b. 1934 consecrated 17 December 1996
4. John Modzalevskii Archbishop of Uman, b. 1970 consecrated 17 June 1996
5. Roman Blashchuk/Balashchuk Metropolitan of Vinnytsya and Bratslav, b. 1953 consecrated 22 May 1990
6. John Bodnarchuk Metropolitan of Lutsk and Volyn, 1929–1994 consecrated 23 October 1977
7. Nicholas Yurik Metropolitan of Lviv and Ternopil, 1910–1984 consecrated 31 October 1965
8. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
9. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
10. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
11. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
12. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
13. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
14. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
15. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
16. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735