Melkhisedek Dudka

Life

Born

13 December 1987

Consecrated bishop

29 November 2012

Made archbishop

2014

Died

April 2016

Sees

1. 29 November 2012 – 2014

   Bishop of Artsyz

   Patriarchate of the Russian True Orthodox Catacomb Church

2. 2014 – April 2016

   Archbishop of Odessa and Taurida

   Patriarchate of the Russian True Orthodox Catacomb Church

Consecration

Consecrated 29 November 2012 by:

• Damian Parfyonov Metropolitan of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas, b. 1980
• Peter Kirichenko Metropolitan of Solntsevo and Odintsovo, d. 2016

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 16 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Melkhisedek Dudka Archbishop of Odessa and Taurida consecrated 29 November 2012
2. Peter Kirichenko Metropolitan of Solntsevo and Odintsovo, d. 2016 consecrated 11 May 2012
3. Benedict Molchanov Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, b. 1975 consecrated 16 January 2000
4. Stephen Linitskii Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Mozhaisk, b. 1934 consecrated 17 December 1996
5. John Modzalevskii Archbishop of Uman, b. 1970 consecrated 17 June 1996
6. Roman Blashchuk/Balashchuk Metropolitan of Vinnytsya and Bratslav, b. 1953 consecrated 22 May 1990
7. John Bodnarchuk Metropolitan of Lutsk and Volyn, 1929–1994 consecrated 23 October 1977
8. Nicholas Yurik Metropolitan of Lviv and Ternopil, 1910–1984 consecrated 31 October 1965
9. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
10. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
11. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
12. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
13. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
14. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
15. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
16. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
17. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735