Joasaph Guben

Life

Born

8 April 1961

Ordained deacon

28 July 1995

Monastic tonsure

27 March 1998

Ordained priest

11 April 1999

Made archimandrite

8 June 2000

Consecrated bishop

16 December 2007

Made archbishop

9 July 2012

Made metropolitan

17 August 2017

Sees

1. 16 December 2007 – 2009

   Bishop of Nova Kakhovka and Beryslav

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 2009 – 2011

   Bishop of Nova Kakhovka and Henichesk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 2011 – 9 July 2012

   Bishop of Kirovohrad and Novomyrhorod

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 9 July 2012 – 17 August 2017

   Archbishop of Kirovohrad and Novomyrhorod

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 17 August 2017 – 23 November 2022

   Metropolitan of Kirovohrad and Novomyrhorod

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 23 November 2022 – present

   Metropolitan of Vasylkiv

   Vicar of Kyiv · Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 16 December 2007 by:

• Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014

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. Joasaph Guben Metropolitan of Vasylkiv consecrated 16 December 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 8

• 18 May 2008Anthony Borovik Former Bishop of Ugolskii, b. 1968
• 24 September 2008Panteleimon Povoroznyuk Metropolitan of Luhansk and Alchevsk, b. 1973
• 16 November 2008Alexander Nesterchuk Archbishop of Horodnytsa, b. 1950
• 25 December 2010Nikodim Baranovskii Metropolitan of Severodonetsk and Starobilsk, b. 1975
• 23 July 2012Clement Vecherya Metropolitan of Nizhyn and Pryluky, b. 1977
• 23 December 2012Bogolep Goncharenko Metropolitan of Oleksandriya and Svitlovodsk, b. 1978
• 17 March 2013Nicholas Pochtovyi Metropolitan of Kirovohrad and Novomyrhorod, b. 1970
• 18 July 2019Siluan Nikitin Bishop of Petergof, b. 1986

Sources

Also in: Wikidata