John Belei

Life

Monastic tonsure

1997

Consecrated bishop

1997

Sees

1. 1997

   Bishop of Lutsk and Volyn

   Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church-Kyiv Patriarchate

2. 1997 – present

   Bishop of Lutsk and Volyn

   Self-proclaimed/Independent

Consecration

Consecrated 1997 by:

• Basil Bodnarchuk Metropolitan of Ternopil and Bucha, 1925–2006
• Feoktist Peresada Archbishop of Ternopil, cons. 1993
• Spyridon Babskii Former Archbishop of Lutsk and Volyn, 1958–2011
• Stephen Ladchuk Bishop of Yahotyn, b. 1936

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 12 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. John Belei Bishop of Lutsk and Volyn consecrated 1997
2. Stephen Ladchuk Bishop of Yahotyn, b. 1936 consecrated 17 December 1992
3. John Bodnarchuk Metropolitan of Lutsk and Volyn, 1929–1994 consecrated 23 October 1977
4. Nicholas Yurik Metropolitan of Lviv and Ternopil, 1910–1984 consecrated 31 October 1965
5. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
6. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
7. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
8. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
9. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
10. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
11. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
12. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
13. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735