Nicholas Pochtovyi

Life

Born

13 March 1970

Ordained deacon

25 July 1992

Ordained priest

23 August 1992

Monastic tonsure

10 March 1999

Made archimandrite

19 April 2009

Elected bishop

15 March 2013

Consecrated bishop

17 March 2013

Made archbishop

17 August 2020

Made metropolitan

17 August 2023

Sees

1. 17 March 2013 – 17 August 2020

   Bishop of Vasylkiv

   Vicar of Kyiv · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 17 August 2020 – 23 November 2022

   Archbishop of Vasylkiv

   Vicar of Kyiv · Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 23 November 2022 – 17 August 2023

   Archbishop of Kirovohrad and Novomyrhorod

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 17 August 2023 – present

   Metropolitan of Kirovohrad and Novomyrhorod

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 17 March 2013 by:

• Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014
• Anthony Pakanich Metropolitan of Boryspil and Brovary, b. 1967
• Paul Lebed Metropolitan of Vyshhorod and Chernobyl, b. 1961
• Serapheim Demyaniv Archbishop of Yahotyn, b. 1953
• Joasaph Guben Metropolitan of Vasylkiv, b. 1961
• Alexander Drabynko Metropolitan of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi and Vishnevoye, b. 1977
• Hilarion Shishkovskii Archbishop of Makariv, 1969–2018
• Feodosii Snigirov Metropolitan of Cherkasy and Kaniv, b. 1974
• Jonah Cherepanov Archbishop of Obukhiv, b. 1971
• Clement Vecherya Metropolitan of Nizhyn and Pryluky, b. 1977
• Varsonofii Stolyar Metropolitan of Vinnytsya and Bar, b. 1972

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. Nicholas Pochtovyi Metropolitan of Kirovohrad and Novomyrhorod consecrated 17 March 2013
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 10

• 28 December 2014Tikhon Chizhevskii Bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk and Kolomyya, 1947–2018
• 31 July 2016Cassian Shostak Archbishop of Ivanovo, b. 1968
• 13 November 2016Benjamin Mezhinskii Archbishop of Khotyn, b. 1966
• 5 June 2017Victor Kotsaba Metropolitan of Baryshivka and Starokostyantyniv, b. 1983
• 17 June 2018Spyridon Golovastov Archbishop of Dobropole, b. 1975
• 18 June 2018Gedeon Kharon Bishop of Makariv, b. 1960
• 19 December 2018Dionisii Pilipchuk Archbishop of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi, b. 1979
• 13 April 2019Ambrose Vainagii Archbishop of Zhurivka, b. 1985
• 13 December 2019Spyridon Romanov Archbishop of Vishnevka, b. 1980
• 6 June 2021Anthony Pukhkan Bishop of Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi, b. 1974

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata