Gerontii Khovanskii

Life

Born

23 October 1957

Ordained deacon

10 November 1980

Ordained priest

30 November 1980

Monastic tonsure

22 August 1990

Made archimandrite

1992

Consecrated bishop

24 March 1996

Made archbishop

22 October 2005

Sees

1. 24 March 1996 – 2000

   Bishop of Sumy and Okhtyrka

   Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyiv Patriarchate

2. 2000 – 22 October 2005

   Bishop of Vinnytsya and Bratslav

   Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyiv Patriarchate

3. 22 October 2005 – 2006

   Archbishop of Vinnytsya and Bratslav

   Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyiv Patriarchate

4. 2006 – 22 July 2008

   Former Archbishop of Vinnytsya and Bratslav

   Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyiv Patriarchate

5. 22 July 2008 – 2015

   Archbishop of Sumy and Vinnytsya

   Apostolic Orthodox Church

6. 2015 – present

   Archbishop of Sumy and Vinnytsya

   Apostolic Orthodox Church in Ukraine

Consecration

Consecrated 24 March 1996 by:

• Filaret Denysenko Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus'-Ukraine, b. 1929
• Varlaam Pilipishin Archbishop of Kitsman and Zastavna, b. 1946
• Yakiv Panchuk Metropolitan of Lutsk and Volyn, 1931–2004
• Joasaph Shibayev Metropolitan of Belgorod and Oboyan, b. 1954

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. Gerontii Khovanskii Archbishop of Sumy and Vinnytsya consecrated 24 March 1996
2. Filaret Denysenko Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus'-Ukraine, b. 1929 consecrated 4 February 1962
3. Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978 consecrated 10 July 1960
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

Also in: Wikidata