Anthony Firley

Life

Born

16 September 1978

Ordained deacon

8 November 1998

Ordained priest

6 December 1998

Monastic tonsure

4 April 2013

Made archimandrite

2 April 2018

Consecrated bishop

2 June 2022

Sees

1. 2 June 2022 – 2 February 2023

   Bishop of Boryspil

   Vicar of Kyiv · Orthodox Church of Ukraine

2. 2 February 2023 – present

   Bishop of Chernihiv and Nizhyn

   Orthodox Church of Ukraine

Consecration

Consecrated 2 June 2022 by:

• Epifaniy Dumenko Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, b. 1979
• Symeon Shostatskyi Metropolitan of Vinnytsya and Bar, b. 1962
• Clement Kushch Archbishop of Simferopol and the Crimea, b. 1969
• Alexander Drabynko Metropolitan of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi and Vishnevoye, b. 1977
• Evstratiy Zorya Archbishop of Chernihiv and Nizhyn, b. 1977
• Volodymyr Shlapak Archbishop of Zhytomyr and Poliske, b. 1979
• Agapit Humenyuk Archbishop of Vyshhorod, b. 1980
• John Shvets Bishop of Svyatoshyn, b. 1955
• Fotiy Davydenko Bishop of Zaporizhzhya and Melitopol, b. 1980
• Paul Yurystyy Bishop of Odessa and Balta, b. 1980
• Feognost Bodoryak Bishop of Bohorodchany, b. 1989

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. Anthony Firley Bishop of Chernihiv and Nizhyn consecrated 2 June 2022
2. Agapit Humenyuk Archbishop of Vyshhorod, b. 1980 consecrated 8 August 2010
3. Filaret Denysenko Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus'-Ukraine, b. 1929 consecrated 4 February 1962
4. Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978 consecrated 10 July 1960
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

Bishops he consecrated 1

• 26 February 2023Efrem Khomyak Bishop of Vasylkiv, b. 1990