Mitrofan Nikitin

Life

Born

31 October 1976

Ordained deacon

21 November 1994

Monastic tonsure

23 December 1994

Ordained priest

18 May 1997

Made archimandrite

2004

Consecrated bishop

28 January 2007

Made archbishop

28 August 2013

Made metropolitan

17 August 2015

Sees

1. 28 January 2007 – 28 August 2013

   Bishop of Horlivka and Slovyansk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 28 August 2013 – 17 August 2015

   Archbishop of Horlivka and Slovyansk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 17 August 2015 – present

   Metropolitan of Horlivka and Slovyansk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 28 January 2007 by:

• Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014
• Hilarion Shukalo Metropolitan of Donetsk and Mariupol, b. 1951
• Luke Kovalenko Metropolitan of Zaporizhzhya and Melitopol, b. 1971
• Arsenii Yakovenko Metropolitan of Svyatohirsk, b. 1968
• Anthony Pakanich Metropolitan of Boryspil and Brovary, b. 1967

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. Mitrofan Nikitin Metropolitan of Horlivka and Slovyansk consecrated 28 January 2007
2. Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014 consecrated 9 July 1966
3. Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978 consecrated 10 July 1960
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 8

• 19 December 2007Alexander Drabynko Metropolitan of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi and Vishnevoye, b. 1977
• 24 September 2008Panteleimon Povoroznyuk Metropolitan of Luhansk and Alchevsk, b. 1973
• 22 November 2008Vladimir Orachov Metropolitan of Kamensk and Tsarychanka, b. 1973
• 30 March 2013Varsonofii Vinnichenko Archbishop of Kökşetau and Akmola, b. 1961
• 29 September 2014Victor Bykov Archbishop of Artsyz, b. 1983
• 17 June 2018Spyridon Golovastov Archbishop of Dobropole, b. 1975
• 6 April 2019Ambrose Archbishop of Volnovakha, b. 1980
• 13 June 2021Paisii Shinkaryov Archbishop of Konstantinovskii, b. 1988

Sources

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