Varlaam Ilyushchenko

Life

Born

13 May 1929

Ordained deacon

19 August 1954

Ordained priest

21 September 1954

Monastic tonsure

5 June 1970

Made archimandrite

14 June 1970

Consecrated bishop

22 October 1972

Made archbishop

2 September 1987

Died

17 September 1990

Sees

1. 22 October 1972 – 18 March 1977

   Bishop of Pereyaslav

   Vicar of Kyiv · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 18 April 1973 – 31 May 1973

   Locum tenens of Chernihiv and Sumy

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 18 March 1977 – 31 December 1986

   Bishop of Chernihiv and Bukovina

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 31 December 1986 – 2 September 1987

   Bishop of Volyn and Rivne

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 2 September 1987 – 19 February 1990

   Archbishop of Volyn and Rivne

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 19 February 1990 – 20 July 1990

   Archbishop of Simferopol and the Crimea

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 20 July 1990 – 17 September 1990

   Archbishop of Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhya

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 22 October 1972 by:

• Filaret Denysenko Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus'-Ukraine, b. 1929
• Palladii Kaminskii Archbishop of Zhytomyr and Ovruch, 1896–1978
• Joseph Savrash Archbishop of Ivano-Frankivsk and Kolomyya, 1909–1984
• Feodosii Dikun Metropolitan of Poltava and Kremenchuk, 1926–2001
• Savva Babinets Archbishop of Poltava and Kremenchuk, 1926–1992

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 10 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Varlaam Ilyushchenko Archbishop of Volyn and Rivne consecrated 22 October 1972
2. Palladii Kaminskii Archbishop of Zhytomyr and Ovruch, 1896–1978 consecrated 30 March 1947
3. Manuel Lemeshevskii Metropolitan of Kuibyshev and Syzran, 1884–1968 consecrated 23 September 1923
4. Tikhon Belavin Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1865–1925 consecrated 19 October 1897
5. Palladii Rayev-Pisarev Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1827–1898 consecrated 18 December 1866
6. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
7. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
8. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
9. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
10. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
11. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 8

• 16 November 1975Agafangel Savvin Metropolitan of Odessa and Izmail, b. 1938
• 30 November 1979Nikanor Yukhimyuk Archbishop of Kamyanets-Podilskyi, 1935–1997
• 18 April 1980Lazar Shvets Metropolitan of Simferopol and the Crimea, 1939–2026
• 13 October 1985Anthony Moskalenko Archbishop of the Urals and Atyrau, 1940–2025
• 8 February 1987Palladii Shiman Bishop of Chita and Zabaikal, 1939–2000
• 28 July 1988Mark Petrovtsy Metropolitan of Khust and Vynohradiv, b. 1951
• 28 July 1989Evfimii Shutak Archbishop of Mukachevo and Uzhhorod, 1934–2000
• 1 October 1989Basil Vasiltsev Former Archbishop of Kirovohrad and Oleksandriya, 1928–1998

Sources

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