Alexander Nesterchuk

Life

Born

11 November 1950

Ordained deacon

27 September 1973

Ordained priest

1 September 1974

Monastic tonsure

1976

Made hegumen

1981

Made archimandrite

1986

Elected bishop

11 November 2008

Consecrated bishop

16 November 2008

Made archbishop

24 March 2012

Sees

1. 16 November 2008 – 24 March 2012

   Bishop of Horodnytsa

   Vicar of Kyiv · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 24 March 2012 – present

   Archbishop of Horodnytsa

   Vicar of Kyiv · Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 16 November 2008 by:

• Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014
• Vissarion Stretovich Metropolitan of Ovruch and Korosten, 1953–2026
• Anatolyi Gladkyi Metropolitan of Poliske and Sarny, b. 1957
• Mitrofan Yurchuk Metropolitan of Luhansk and Alchevsk, 1962–2021
• Bartholomew Vashchuk Metropolitan of Rivne and Ostroh, 1953–2021
• Gurii Kuzmenko Archbishop of Zhytomyr and Novohrad-Volynskyi, b. 1964
• Onufrii Lyogkii Metropolitan of Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv, b. 1970
• Irinei Semko Metropolitan of Nizhyn and Pryluky, 1963–2017
• Evlogii Gutchenko Metropolitan of Sumy and Okhtyrka, b. 1967
• Panteleimon Lugovoi Metropolitan of Uman and Zvenigorod, b. 1967
• Joasaph Guben Metropolitan of Vasylkiv, b. 1961
• Alexander Drabynko Metropolitan of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi and Vishnevoye, b. 1977
• Theodore Mamasuyev Metropolitan of Mukachevo and Uzhhorod, b. 1966
• Nikodim Horenko Metropolitan of Zhytomyr, b. 1972
• Vladimir Melnik Metropolitan of Volodymyr-Volynskyi, b. 1968
• Anthony Borovik Former Bishop of Ugolskii, b. 1968

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. Alexander Nesterchuk Archbishop of Horodnytsa consecrated 16 November 2008
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 15

• 2 January 2011Filaret Kucherov Metropolitan of Lviv and Halych, b. 1972
• 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
• 30 August 2012Damian Davydov Archbishop of Fastiv, b. 1959
• 4 September 2012Aleksii Shpakov Metropolitan of Voznesensk and Pervomaiskyi, b. 1975
• 29 September 2014Victor Bykov Archbishop of Artsyz, b. 1983
• 28 December 2014Tikhon Chizhevskii Bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk and Kolomyya, 1947–2018
• 5 August 2015Nathaniel Krykota Metropolitan of Volyn and Lutsk, b. 1959
• 5 June 2017Victor Kotsaba Metropolitan of Baryshivka and Starokostyantyniv, b. 1983
• 27 September 2018Nestor Donenko Bishop of Yalta, b. 1958
• 8 December 2019Kallinik Chernyshyov Bishop of Bakhchysarai, b. 1977
• 9 December 2019Paul Valuyskyi Archbishop of Bilovodsk, b. 1977
• 6 June 2021Anthony Pukhkan Bishop of Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi, b. 1974

Sources

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