Agafangel Savvin

Life

Born

2 September 1938

Monastic tonsure

2 April 1965

Ordained deacon

18 April 1965

Ordained priest

22 April 1965

Made hegumen

7 April 1967

Made archimandrite

1 June 1967

Elected bishop

11 November 1975

Consecrated bishop

16 November 1975

Made archbishop

7 September 1981

Made metropolitan

10 March 1989

Sees

1. 16 November 1975 – 7 September 1981

   Bishop of Vinnytsya and Bratslav

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 7 September 1981 – 10 March 1989

   Archbishop of Vinnytsya and Bratslav

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 10 March 1989 – 7 September 1991

   Metropolitan of Vinnytsya and Bratslav

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 7 September 1991 – 5 April 1992

   Former Metropolitan of Vinnytsya and Bratslav

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 5 April 1992 – 20 June 1992

   Metropolitan of Vinnytsya and Bratslav

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 20 June 1992 – present

   Metropolitan of Odessa and Izmail

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 16 November 1975 by:

• Filaret Denysenko Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus'-Ukraine, b. 1929
• Sergii Petrov Metropolitan of Odessa and Kherson, 1924–1990
• Anthony Vakarik Metropolitan of Chernihiv and Nizhyn, 1926–2003
• Makarii Svistun Metropolitan of Vinnytsya and Mohyliv-Podilskyi, 1938–2007
• Varlaam Ilyushchenko Archbishop of Volyn and Rivne, 1929–1990

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 10 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Agafangel Savvin Metropolitan of Odessa and Izmail consecrated 16 November 1975
2. Sergii Petrov Metropolitan of Odessa and Kherson, 1924–1990 consecrated 13 March 1960
3. Boris Vik Metropolitan of Kherson and Odessa, 1906–1965 consecrated 2 April 1944
4. Sergii Stragorodskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1867–1944 consecrated 25 February 1901
5. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
6. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
7. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
8. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
9. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
10. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
11. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 23

• 13 December 1975Serafim Gachkovskii Bishop of Almaty and Kazakhstan, 1925–1982
• 16 October 1977Sebastian Pilipchuk Bishop of Kirovohrad and Mykolaiv, 1914–1992
• 13 October 1985Anthony Moskalenko Archbishop of the Urals and Atyrau, 1940–2025
• 8 February 1987Palladii Shiman Bishop of Chita and Zabaikal, 1939–2000
• 1 December 1988Aleksii Kutepov Metropolitan of Tula and Yefremov, b. 1953
• 4 December 1988Victor Oleinik Metropolitan of Tver and Kashin, b. 1940
• 14 December 1990Yakiv Panchuk Metropolitan of Lutsk and Volyn, 1931–2004
• 29 July 1991Ierofei Sobolev Bishop of Balakhna, 1936–2001
• 13 September 1996Ephrem Kytsai Metropolitan of Kryvyi Rih and Nikopol, b. 1966
• 30 January 2000Evstafii Evdokimov Archbishop of Alexandrovsk and Yuriev-Polskii, b. 1951
• 13 November 2005Peter Musteață Archbishop of Ungheni and Nisporeni, b. 1967
• 19 August 2006Aleksii Grokha Metropolitan of Balta and Ananiv, b. 1972
• 4 June 2007Nikodim Horenko Metropolitan of Zhytomyr, b. 1972
• 10 June 2007Irinei Semko Metropolitan of Nizhyn and Pryluky, 1963–2017
• 18 May 2008Anthony Borovik Former Bishop of Ugolskii, b. 1968
• 24 September 2008Panteleimon Povoroznyuk Metropolitan of Luhansk and Alchevsk, b. 1973
• 22 November 2008Vladimir Orachov Metropolitan of Kamensk and Tsarychanka, b. 1973
• 13 May 2012Anthony Kripak Archbishop of Putyvl, b. 1977
• 4 August 2012Arkadii Taranov Archbishop of Rovenki and Sverdlovsk, b. 1957
• 29 September 2013Diodor Vasilchuk Archbishop of Yuzhne, b. 1979
• 29 September 2014Victor Bykov Archbishop of Artsyz, b. 1983
• 15 November 2015Sergii Mikhailenko Archbishop of Bolhrad, b. 1975
• 13 June 2021Paisii Shinkaryov Archbishop of Konstantinovskii, b. 1988

Sources

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