Clement Vecherya

Life

Born

16 August 1977

Ordained deacon

21 April 2001

Monastic tonsure

2002

Ordained priest

4 November 2003

Made archimandrite

21 September 2008

Elected bishop

20 July 2012

Consecrated bishop

23 July 2012

Made archbishop

28 July 2017

Made metropolitan

17 August 2019

Sees

1. 23 July 2012 – 28 July 2017

   Bishop of Irpin

   Vicar of Kyiv · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 28 July 2017 – 12 December 2017

   Archbishop of Irpin

   Vicar of Kyiv · Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 12 December 2017 – 17 August 2019

   Archbishop of Nizhyn and Pryluky

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 17 August 2019 – present

   Metropolitan of Nizhyn and Pryluky

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 23 July 2012 by:

• Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014
• Onufrii Berezovskii Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, b. 1944
• Paul Lebed Metropolitan of Vyshhorod and Chernobyl, b. 1961
• Sergii Gensitskii Metropolitan of Ternopil and Kremenets, b. 1951
• Anthony Pakanich Metropolitan of Boryspil and Brovary, b. 1967
• Theodore Gayun Metropolitan of Kamyanets-Podilskyi and Horodok, b. 1958
• Agapit Bevtsik Metropolitan of Mohyliv-Podilskyi and Sharhorod, b. 1965
• Serapheim Demyaniv Archbishop of Yahotyn, b. 1953
• Joasaph Guben Metropolitan of Vasylkiv, b. 1961
• Alexander Drabynko Metropolitan of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi and Vishnevoye, b. 1977
• Alexander Nesterchuk Archbishop of Horodnytsa, b. 1950
• Meletii Yegorenko Metropolitan of Chernivtsi (Cernăuţi) and Bukovina, b. 1962
• Irinei Semko Metropolitan of Nizhyn and Pryluky, 1963–2017
• Evlogii Patsan Archbishop of Novomoskovsk, b. 1970
• Nikodim Baranovskii Metropolitan of Severodonetsk and Starobilsk, b. 1975
• Filaret Kucherov Metropolitan of Lviv and Halych, b. 1972
• Feodosii Snigirov Metropolitan of Cherkasy and Kaniv, b. 1974
• Filaret Zverev Metropolitan of Nova Kakhovka and Henichesk, b. 1971
• Roman Kimovich Metropolitan of Konotop and Hlukhiv, b. 1971

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. Clement Vecherya Metropolitan of Nizhyn and Pryluky consecrated 23 July 2012
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

• 5 August 2012Ephrem Yarinko Bishop of Berdyansk and Primorye, b. 1978
• 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
• 29 September 2013Diodor Vasilchuk Archbishop of Yuzhne, b. 1979
• 28 December 2014Tikhon Chizhevskii Bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk and Kolomyya, 1947–2018
• 5 April 2015John Vakhnyuk Archbishop of Zolotonosha, b. 1968
• 5 August 2015Nathaniel Krykota Metropolitan of Volyn and Lutsk, b. 1959
• 15 November 2015Sergii Mikhailenko Archbishop of Bolhrad, b. 1975
• 6 December 2015Benjamin Pogrebnoi Archbishop of Novi Sanzhary, b. 1979
• 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
• 25 March 2018Pimen Voyat Metropolitan of Rivne and Ostroh, b. 1985
• 18 June 2018Gedeon Kharon Bishop of Makariv, b. 1960
• 19 December 2018Dionisii Pilipchuk Archbishop of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi, b. 1979
• 23 December 2018Andrew Vasilashku Archbishop of Petropavl, b. 1979
• 13 April 2019Ambrose Vainagii Archbishop of Zhurivka, b. 1985
• 8 December 2019Kallinik Chernyshyov Bishop of Bakhchysarai, b. 1977
• 9 December 2019Paul Valuyskyi Archbishop of Bilovodsk, b. 1977
• 13 December 2019Spyridon Romanov Archbishop of Vishnevka, b. 1980
• 17 December 2019Nikodim Pustovgar Archbishop of Lyubech, b. 1980
• 23 August 2020Silouan Chornei/Ciornei Bishop of Hertsa, b. 1980
• 27 August 2020Feodosii Marchenko Bishop of Ladan, b. 1982
• 28 August 2020Irinarkh Tymchuk Archbishop of Novopskov, b. 1987
• 6 June 2021Anthony Pukhkan Bishop of Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi, b. 1974
• 28 August 2021Agafon Opanasenko Bishop of Koktebel, b. 1977
• 16 May 2022Feodosii Mintenko Bishop of Gorodishche, b. 1971
• 3 January 2023Benjamin Voloshchuk Bishop of Boyarsk, b. 1961

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata