Nifont Solodukha

Life

Born

5 October 1948

Monastic tonsure

20 March 1974

Ordained deacon

15 April 1974

Ordained priest

26 February 1977

Made archimandrite

1988

Elected bishop

20 March 1990

Consecrated bishop

31 March 1990

Made archbishop

28 July 1993

Made metropolitan

11 April 2001

Retired

18 October 2016 (relieved of the diocese for health reasons)

Died

22 March 2017

Sees

1. 31 March 1990 – 1992

   Bishop of Khmelnytskyi and Kamyanets-Podilskyi

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1992 – 28 July 1993

   Bishop of Lutsk and Volyn

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 28 July 1993 – 11 April 2001

   Archbishop of Lutsk and Volyn

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 11 April 2001 – 18 October 2016

   Metropolitan of Lutsk and Volyn

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 18 October 2016 – 22 March 2017

   Former Metropolitan of Lutsk and Volyn

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 31 March 1990. His consecrators are not yet in the data.

Bishops he consecrated 6

• 14 December 1990Yakiv Panchuk Metropolitan of Lutsk and Volyn, 1931–2004
• 4 June 2007Nikodim Horenko Metropolitan of Zhytomyr, b. 1972
• 19 December 2007Alexander Drabynko Metropolitan of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi and Vishnevoye, b. 1977
• 24 September 2008Panteleimon Povoroznyuk Metropolitan of Luhansk and Alchevsk, b. 1973
• 13 December 2009Evlogii Patsan Archbishop of Novomoskovsk, b. 1970
• 23 December 2012Bogolep Goncharenko Metropolitan of Oleksandriya and Svitlovodsk, b. 1978

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata