Gurii Kuzmenko

Life

Born

11 August 1964

Monastic tonsure

2 July 1990

Ordained deacon

15 July 1990

Ordained priest

28 July 1990

Made archimandrite

12 February 1993

Consecrated bishop

31 July 1994

Made archbishop

21 April 2007

Retired

10 February 2011

Sees

1. 31 July 1994 – 21 April 2007

   Bishop of Zhytomyr and Novohrad-Volynskyi

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 21 April 2007 – 10 February 2011

   Archbishop of Zhytomyr and Novohrad-Volynskyi

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 10 February 2011 – present

   Former Archbishop of Zhytomyr and Novohrad-Volynskyi

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 31 July 1994 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. Gurii Kuzmenko Archbishop of Zhytomyr and Novohrad-Volynskyi consecrated 31 July 1994
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 13

• 13 September 1996Ephrem Kytsai Metropolitan of Kryvyi Rih and Nikopol, b. 1966
• 13 December 1996John Siopko Metropolitan of Kherson and Taurida, b. 1964
• 19 May 2001Serapheim Melkonyan Metropolitan of Baltiysk and Svetlogorsk, b. 1961
• 30 December 2001Philip Osadchenko Metropolitan of Poltava and Myrhorod, b. 1956
• 26 November 2006Anthony Pakanich Metropolitan of Boryspil and Brovary, b. 1967
• 4 June 2007Nikodim Horenko Metropolitan of Zhytomyr, b. 1972
• 19 December 2007Alexander Drabynko Metropolitan of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi and Vishnevoye, b. 1977
• 16 November 2008Alexander Nesterchuk Archbishop of Horodnytsa, b. 1950
• 20 November 2008Nektarii Frolov Bishop of Taldykorgan, b. 1961
• 13 December 2009Evlogii Patsan Archbishop of Novomoskovsk, b. 1970
• 14 February 2010Alipii Kozolii Metropolitan of Dzhankoi and Razdolne, 1971–2021
• 9 December 2019Paul Valuyskyi Archbishop of Bilovodsk, b. 1977
• 2 January 2022Aleksii Ovsyannikov Bishop of Dzhankoi and Razdolne, b. 1973

Sources

• wikidata.org

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