Serapheim Demyaniv

Life

Born

9 July 1953

Ordained deacon

4 July 1976

Ordained priest

7 July 1976

Monastic tonsure

15 January 1979

Consecrated bishop

16 November 2007

Made archbishop

24 March 2012

Sees

1. 16 November 2007 – 24 March 2012

   Bishop of Yahotyn

   Vicar of Kyiv · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 24 March 2012 – present

   Archbishop of Yahotyn

   Vicar of Kyiv · Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 16 November 2007 by:

• Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014
• Nicholas Grokh Archbishop of Bilohorodka, 1954–2017
• John Siopko Metropolitan of Kherson and Taurida, b. 1964
• Paul Lebed Metropolitan of Vyshhorod and Chernobyl, b. 1961
• Mitrofan Yurchuk Metropolitan of Luhansk and Alchevsk, 1962–2021
• Ambrose Polikopa Metropolitan of Chernihiv and Novhorod-Siverskyi, b. 1943
• Anthony Pakanich Metropolitan of Boryspil and Brovary, b. 1967
• Hilarion Shishkovskii Archbishop of Makariv, 1969–2018
• Panteleimon Lugovoi Metropolitan of Uman and Zvenigorod, b. 1967

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. Serapheim Demyaniv Archbishop of Yahotyn consecrated 16 November 2007
2. Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014 consecrated 9 July 1966
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

Bishops he consecrated 31

• 19 December 2007Alexander Drabynko Metropolitan of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi and Vishnevoye, b. 1977
• 18 May 2008Anthony Borovik Former Bishop of Ugolskii, b. 1968
• 29 November 2009Tikhon Zhilyakov Bishop of Kremenchuk and Lubny, 1968–2011
• 13 December 2009Evlogii Patsan Archbishop of Novomoskovsk, b. 1970
• 14 February 2010Alipii Kozolii Metropolitan of Dzhankoi and Razdolne, 1971–2021
• 10 September 2011Jonah Cherepanov Archbishop of Obukhiv, b. 1971
• 13 May 2012Anthony Kripak Archbishop of Putyvl, b. 1977
• 22 May 2012Longin Zhar Metropolitan of Bancheny, b. 1965
• 22 July 2012Roman Kimovich Metropolitan of Konotop and Hlukhiv, b. 1971
• 23 July 2012Clement Vecherya Metropolitan of Nizhyn and Pryluky, b. 1977
• 4 August 2012Arkadii Taranov Archbishop of Rovenki and Sverdlovsk, b. 1957
• 30 August 2012Damian Davydov Archbishop of Fastiv, b. 1959
• 4 September 2012Aleksii Shpakov Metropolitan of Voznesensk and Pervomaiskyi, b. 1975
• 23 December 2012Bogolep Goncharenko Metropolitan of Oleksandriya and Svitlovodsk, b. 1978
• 17 March 2013Nicholas Pochtovyi Metropolitan of Kirovohrad and Novomyrhorod, b. 1970
• 30 March 2013Varsonofii Vinnichenko Archbishop of Kökşetau and Akmola, b. 1961
• 29 September 2013Diodor Vasilchuk Archbishop of Yuzhne, b. 1979
• 28 December 2014Tikhon Chizhevskii Bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk and Kolomyya, 1947–2018
• 31 July 2016Cassian Shostak Archbishop of Ivanovo, b. 1968
• 13 November 2016Benjamin Mezhinskii Archbishop of Khotyn, b. 1966
• 13 December 2016Isaac Andronik Archbishop of Vorzel, b. 1964
• 5 June 2017Victor Kotsaba Metropolitan of Baryshivka and Starokostyantyniv, b. 1983
• 18 June 2018Gedeon Kharon Bishop of Makariv, b. 1960
• 9 December 2019Paul Valuyskyi Archbishop of Bilovodsk, b. 1977
• 21 March 2020Laurus Berezovskyi Bishop of Irpin, b. 1986
• 13 December 2020Barnabas Hladun Bishop of Novyi Buh, b. 1964
• 13 June 2021Paisii Shinkaryov Archbishop of Konstantinovskii, b. 1988
• 15 May 2022Kleopa Migayesi Bishop of Novoselitskoye, b. 1977
• 27 November 2022John Ternovetskii Bishop of Izyum and Kupyansk, b. 1954
• 4 December 2022Nikita Storozhuk Bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk and Kolomyya, b. 1980
• 3 January 2023Benjamin Voloshchuk Bishop of Boyarsk, b. 1961

Sources

Also in: Wikidata