Nestor Donenko

Life

Born

20 February 1958

Ordained deacon

30 June 1992

Ordained priest

7 July 1992

Monastic tonsure

13 June 2018

Made archimandrite

17 June 2018

Consecrated bishop

27 September 2018

Sees

1. 27 September 2018 – present

   Bishop of Yalta

   Vicar of Simferopol · Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 27 September 2018 by:

• Onufrii Berezovskii Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, b. 1944
• Lazar Shvets Metropolitan of Simferopol and the Crimea, 1939–2026
• Paul Lebed Metropolitan of Vyshhorod and Chernobyl, b. 1961
• Mitrofan Yurchuk Metropolitan of Luhansk and Alchevsk, 1962–2021
• Anthony Pakanich Metropolitan of Boryspil and Brovary, b. 1967
• Panteleimon Bashchuk Archbishop of Bucha, b. 1961
• Panteleimon Povoroznyuk Metropolitan of Luhansk and Alchevsk, b. 1973
• Alexander Nesterchuk Archbishop of Horodnytsa, b. 1950
• Jonah Cherepanov Archbishop of Obukhiv, b. 1971
• Varsonofii Stolyar Metropolitan of Vinnytsya and Bar, b. 1972
• Victor Kotsaba Metropolitan of Baryshivka and Starokostyantyniv, b. 1983
• Silvester Stoichev Bishop of Bilohorodka, b. 1980

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. Nestor Donenko Bishop of Yalta consecrated 27 September 2018
2. Lazar Shvets Metropolitan of Simferopol and the Crimea, 1939–2026 consecrated 18 April 1980
3. Nikodim Rusnak Metropolitan of Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv, 1921–2011 consecrated 10 August 1961
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

Sources

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