Spyridon Romanov

Life

Born

23 June 1980

Ordained deacon

14 October 2010

Ordained priest

3 August 2012

Monastic tonsure

25 December 2015

Made archimandrite

27 August 2017

Elected bishop

6 December 2019

Consecrated bishop

13 December 2019

Made archbishop

17 August 2024

Sees

1. 13 December 2019 – 17 August 2024

   Bishop of Vishnevka

   Vicar of Kyiv · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 17 August 2024 – present

   Archbishop of Vishnevka

   Vicar of Kyiv · Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 13 December 2019 by:

• Onufrii Berezovskii Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, b. 1944
• Paul Lebed Metropolitan of Vyshhorod and Chernobyl, b. 1961
• Anthony Pakanich Metropolitan of Boryspil and Brovary, b. 1967
• Arsenii Yakovenko Metropolitan of Svyatohirsk, b. 1968
• Clement Vecherya Metropolitan of Nizhyn and Pryluky, b. 1977
• Feodosii Snigirov Metropolitan of Cherkasy and Kaniv, b. 1974
• Damian Davydov Archbishop of Fastiv, b. 1959
• Nicholas Pochtovyi Metropolitan of Kirovohrad and Novomyrhorod, b. 1970
• Tikhon Sofiichuk Metropolitan of Romena and Buryn, b. 1965
• Victor Kotsaba Metropolitan of Baryshivka and Starokostyantyniv, b. 1983
• Silvester Stoichev Bishop of Bilohorodka, b. 1980
• Dionisii Pilipchuk Archbishop of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi, b. 1979

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. Spyridon Romanov Archbishop of Vishnevka consecrated 13 December 2019
2. Nicholas Pochtovyi Metropolitan of Kirovohrad and Novomyrhorod, b. 1970 consecrated 17 March 2013
3. Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014 consecrated 9 July 1966
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 5

• 28 August 2020Irinarkh Tymchuk Archbishop of Novopskov, b. 1987
• 6 June 2021Anthony Pukhkan Bishop of Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi, b. 1974
• 13 June 2021Paisii Shinkaryov Archbishop of Konstantinovskii, b. 1988
• 28 August 2021Agafon Opanasenko Bishop of Koktebel, b. 1977
• 16 May 2022Feodosii Mintenko Bishop of Gorodishche, b. 1971

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata