Cyril Bilan

Life

Born

15 May 1975

Monastic tonsure

27 March 1997

Ordained deacon

12 April 1997

Ordained priest

13 April 1997

Made archimandrite

23 April 2006

Elected bishop

18 March 2020

Consecrated bishop

29 March 2020

Sees

1. 29 March 2020 – present

   Bishop of Byshiv

   Vicar of Kyiv · Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 29 March 2020 by:

• Onufrii Berezovskii Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, b. 1944

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. Cyril Bilan Bishop of Byshiv consecrated 29 March 2020
2. Onufrii Berezovskii Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, b. 1944 consecrated 9 December 1990
3. Filaret Denysenko Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus'-Ukraine, b. 1929 consecrated 4 February 1962
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 3

• 28 August 2021Agafon Opanasenko Bishop of Koktebel, b. 1977
• 2 January 2022Aleksii Ovsyannikov Bishop of Dzhankoi and Razdolne, b. 1973
• 16 May 2022Feodosii Mintenko Bishop of Gorodishche, b. 1971

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru