Arsenii Yakovenko

Life

Born

21 June 1968

Ordained deacon

12 July 1992

Ordained priest

25 July 1992

Monastic tonsure

21 August 1992

Made archimandrite

17 April 1995

Consecrated bishop

4 December 2005

Made archbishop

19 December 2010

Made metropolitan

17 August 2015

Sees

1. 4 December 2005 – 24 January 2007

   Bishop of Svyatohirsk

   Vicar of Horlivka · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 24 January 2007 – 19 December 2010

   Bishop of Svyatohirsk

   Vicar of Donetsk · Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 19 December 2010 – 17 August 2015

   Archbishop of Svyatohirsk

   Vicar of Donetsk · Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 17 August 2015 – 25 September 2023

   Metropolitan of Svyatohirsk

   Vicar of Donetsk · Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 25 September 2023 – present

   Metropolitan of Svyatohirsk

   Vicar of Kyiv · Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 4 December 2005 by:

• Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014
• Irinei Serednii Metropolitan of Dnipropetrovsk and Pavlohrad, b. 1939
• Hilarion Shukalo Metropolitan of Donetsk and Mariupol, b. 1951
• Paul Lebed Metropolitan of Vyshhorod and Chernobyl, b. 1961
• Alipii Pogrebnyak Archbishop of Krasnyi Lyman, 1945–2021
• Ephrem Kytsai Metropolitan of Kryvyi Rih and Nikopol, b. 1966
• Ambrose Polikopa Metropolitan of Chernihiv and Novhorod-Siverskyi, b. 1943
• Luke Kovalenko Metropolitan of Zaporizhzhya and Melitopol, b. 1971

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. Arsenii Yakovenko Metropolitan of Svyatohirsk consecrated 4 December 2005
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 7

• 26 November 2006Anthony Pakanich Metropolitan of Boryspil and Brovary, b. 1967
• 28 January 2007Mitrofan Nikitin Metropolitan of Horlivka and Slovyansk, b. 1976
• 18 September 2011Andrew Tarasov Bishop of Rossosh and Ostrogozhsk, b. 1975
• 30 March 2013Varsonofii Vinnichenko Archbishop of Kökşetau and Akmola, b. 1961
• 6 April 2019Ambrose Archbishop of Volnovakha, b. 1980
• 7 April 2019Symeon Golubka Archbishop of Ugolskii, b. 1968
• 13 December 2019Spyridon Romanov Archbishop of Vishnevka, b. 1980

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata