Gerontii Olyanskyy

Life

Born

14 September 1979

Ordained deacon

5 August 2005

Ordained priest

27 September 2005

Monastic tonsure

14 April 2006

Made archimandrite

8 June 2010

Consecrated bishop

14 September 2014

Sees

1. 14 September 2014 – 25 July 2018

   Bishop of Drohobych

   Vicar of Kyiv · Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church

2. 25 July 2018 – 15 December 2018

   Bishop of Boryspil

   Vicar of Kyiv · Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church

3. 15 December 2018 – 5 February 2019

   Bishop of Boryspil

   Vicar of Kyiv · Orthodox Church of Ukraine

4. 5 February 2019 – present

   Bishop of Boyarka

   Orthodox Church of Ukraine

Consecration

Consecrated 14 September 2014 by:

• Mefodii Kudryakov Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1949–2015
• Volodymyr Shlapak Archbishop of Zhytomyr and Poliske, b. 1979
• Herman Semanchuk Archbishop of Chernivtsi (Cernăuţi) and Khotyn, b. 1973
• Volodymyr Cherpak Bishop of Fastiv, b. 1952
• Mstyslav Huk Archbishop of Ternopil and Podilsk, b. 1978
• 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. Gerontii Olyanskyy Bishop of Boyarka consecrated 14 September 2014
2. Mefodii Kudryakov Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1949–2015 consecrated 17 June 1995
3. Izyaslav Karga Archbishop of Makariv, b. 1949 consecrated 11 September 1994
4. Filaret Denysenko Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus'-Ukraine, b. 1929 consecrated 4 February 1962
5. Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978 consecrated 10 July 1960
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