Herman Semanchuk

Life

Born

27 October 1973

Ordained deacon

9 March 1997

Ordained priest

19 April 1997

Monastic tonsure

27 July 1997

Consecrated bishop

16 November 2009

Made archbishop

6 May 2015

Sees

1. 16 November 2009 – 6 May 2015

   Bishop of Chernivtsi (Cernăuţi) and Khotyn

   Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church

2. 6 May 2015 – 15 December 2018

   Archbishop of Chernivtsi (Cernăuţi) and Khotyn

   Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church

3. 15 December 2018 – present

   Archbishop of Chernivtsi (Cernăuţi) and Khotyn

   Orthodox Church of Ukraine

Consecration

Consecrated 16 November 2009 by:

• Mefodii Kudryakov Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1949–2015
• Feodosiy Petsyna Archbishop of Drohobych and Sambir, 1950–2010
• Hilarion Savchuk Bishop of Cherkasy and Kirovohrad, 1969–2015
• Volodymyr Shlapak Archbishop of Zhytomyr and Poliske, b. 1979
• Afanasii Shkurupiy Archbishop of Kharkiv and Izyum, b. 1954

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 13 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Herman Semanchuk Archbishop of Chernivtsi (Cernăuţi) and Khotyn consecrated 16 November 2009
2. Hilarion Savchuk Bishop of Cherkasy and Kirovohrad, 1969–2015 consecrated 3 November 2005
3. Roman Blashchuk/Balashchuk Metropolitan of Vinnytsya and Bratslav, b. 1953 consecrated 22 May 1990
4. John Bodnarchuk Metropolitan of Lutsk and Volyn, 1929–1994 consecrated 23 October 1977
5. Nicholas Yurik Metropolitan of Lviv and Ternopil, 1910–1984 consecrated 31 October 1965
6. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
7. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
8. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
9. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
10. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
11. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
12. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
13. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
14. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 3

• 16 November 2010Volodymyr Cherpak Bishop of Fastiv, b. 1952
• 14 September 2014Gerontii Olyanskyy Bishop of Boyarka, b. 1979
• 4 December 2019Nikodim Kulygin Bishop of Henichesk, b. 1968

Sources

Also in: Wikidata