Benjamin Mezhinskii

Life

Born

16 March 1966

Monastic tonsure

3 November 1988

Ordained deacon

19 December 1988

Ordained priest

25 December 1988

Made archimandrite

30 April 2007

Elected bishop

18 October 2016

Consecrated bishop

13 November 2016

Made archbishop

17 August 2022

Sees

1. 13 November 2016 – 17 August 2022

   Bishop of Khotyn

   Vicar of Chernivtsi (Cernăuţi) and Bukovina · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 17 August 2022 – present

   Archbishop of Khotyn

   Vicar of Chernivtsi (Cernăuţi) and Bukovina · Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 13 November 2016 by:

• Onufrii Berezovskii Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, b. 1944
• Anthony Pakanich Metropolitan of Boryspil and Brovary, b. 1967
• John Siopko Metropolitan of Kherson and Taurida, b. 1964
• Agapit Bevtsik Metropolitan of Mohyliv-Podilskyi and Sharhorod, b. 1965
• Meletii Yegorenko Metropolitan of Chernivtsi (Cernăuţi) and Bukovina, b. 1962
• Panteleimon Bashchuk Archbishop of Bucha, b. 1961
• Panteleimon Lugovoi Metropolitan of Uman and Zvenigorod, b. 1967
• Serapheim Demyaniv Archbishop of Yahotyn, b. 1953
• Feodosii Snigirov Metropolitan of Cherkasy and Kaniv, b. 1974
• Longin Zhar Metropolitan of Bancheny, b. 1965
• Clement Vecherya Metropolitan of Nizhyn and Pryluky, b. 1977
• Varsonofii Stolyar Metropolitan of Vinnytsya and Bar, b. 1972
• Damian Davydov Archbishop of Fastiv, b. 1959
• Nicholas Pochtovyi Metropolitan of Kirovohrad and Novomyrhorod, b. 1970
• Eveseviy Dudka Metropolitan of Shepetivka and Slavuta, b. 1964

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. Benjamin Mezhinskii Archbishop of Khotyn consecrated 13 November 2016
2. Meletii Yegorenko Metropolitan of Chernivtsi (Cernăuţi) and Bukovina, b. 1962 consecrated 30 July 2006
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 4

• 9 December 2019Paul Valuyskyi Archbishop of Bilovodsk, b. 1977
• 21 March 2020Laurus Berezovskyi Bishop of Irpin, b. 1986
• 4 December 2022Nikita Storozhuk Bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk and Kolomyya, b. 1980
• 3 January 2023Benjamin Voloshchuk Bishop of Boyarsk, b. 1961

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata