Silvester Stoichev

Life

Born

30 May 1980

Monastic tonsure

2 April 2009

Ordained deacon

11 April 2009

Ordained priest

21 May 2009

Made archimandrite

1 May 2013

Elected bishop

21 December 2017

Consecrated bishop

24 December 2017

Made archbishop

17 August 2022

Sees

1. 24 December 2017 – 17 August 2022

   Bishop of Bilohorodka

   Vicar of Kyiv · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 17 August 2022 – present

   Archbishop of Bilohorodka

   Vicar of Kyiv · Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 24 December 2017 by:

• Onufrii Berezovskii Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, b. 1944
• Paul Lebed Metropolitan of Vyshhorod and Chernobyl, b. 1961
• Mitrofan Yurchuk Metropolitan of Luhansk and Alchevsk, 1962–2021
• Anthony Pakanich Metropolitan of Boryspil and Brovary, b. 1967
• Filaret Kucherov Metropolitan of Lviv and Halych, b. 1972
• Feodosii Snigirov Metropolitan of Cherkasy and Kaniv, b. 1974
• Ephrem Yarinko Bishop of Berdyansk and Primorye, b. 1978
• Varsonofii Stolyar Metropolitan of Vinnytsya and Bar, b. 1972
• Aleksii Shpakov Metropolitan of Voznesensk and Pervomaiskyi, b. 1975
• Diodor Vasilchuk Archbishop of Yuzhne, b. 1979
• Tikhon Sofiichuk Metropolitan of Romena and Buryn, b. 1965
• Victor Kotsaba Metropolitan of Baryshivka and Starokostyantyniv, b. 1983

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 12 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Silvester Stoichev Bishop of Bilohorodka consecrated 24 December 2017
2. Ephrem Yarinko Bishop of Berdyansk and Primorye, b. 1978 consecrated 5 August 2012
3. Mark Petrovtsy Metropolitan of Khust and Vynohradiv, b. 1951 consecrated 28 July 1988
4. Nikodim Rusnak Metropolitan of Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv, 1921–2011 consecrated 10 August 1961
5. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
6. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
7. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
8. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
9. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
10. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
11. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
12. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
13. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 28

• 24 March 2018Sergii Anitsoi Metropolitan of Tulchyn and Bratslav, b. 1979
• 25 March 2018Pimen Voyat Metropolitan of Rivne and Ostroh, b. 1985
• 17 June 2018Spyridon Golovastov Archbishop of Dobropole, b. 1975
• 18 June 2018Gedeon Kharon Bishop of Makariv, b. 1960
• 27 September 2018Nestor Donenko Bishop of Yalta, b. 1958
• 19 December 2018Dionisii Pilipchuk Archbishop of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi, b. 1979
• 23 December 2018Andrew Vasilashku Archbishop of Petropavl, b. 1979
• 6 April 2019Ambrose Archbishop of Volnovakha, b. 1980
• 7 April 2019Symeon Golubka Archbishop of Ugolskii, b. 1968
• 13 April 2019Ambrose Vainagii Archbishop of Zhurivka, b. 1985
• 8 December 2019Kallinik Chernyshyov Bishop of Bakhchysarai, b. 1977
• 9 December 2019Paul Valuyskyi Archbishop of Bilovodsk, b. 1977
• 13 December 2019Spyridon Romanov Archbishop of Vishnevka, b. 1980
• 17 December 2019Nikodim Pustovgar Archbishop of Lyubech, b. 1980
• 21 March 2020Laurus Berezovskyi Bishop of Irpin, b. 1986
• 23 August 2020Silouan Chornei/Ciornei Bishop of Hertsa, b. 1980
• 27 August 2020Feodosii Marchenko Bishop of Ladan, b. 1982
• 13 December 2020Barnabas Hladun Bishop of Novyi Buh, b. 1964
• 6 June 2021Anthony Pukhkan Bishop of Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi, b. 1974
• 13 June 2021Paisii Shinkaryov Archbishop of Konstantinovskii, b. 1988
• 28 August 2021Agafon Opanasenko Bishop of Koktebel, b. 1977
• 15 May 2022Kleopa Migayesi Bishop of Novoselitskoye, b. 1977
• 16 May 2022Feodosii Mintenko Bishop of Gorodishche, b. 1971
• 27 November 2022John Ternovetskii Bishop of Izyum and Kupyansk, b. 1954
• 4 December 2022Nikita Storozhuk Bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk and Kolomyya, b. 1980
• 11 December 2022Yakov Galandzovskii Bishop of Drohobych, b. 1977
• 13 December 2022Hilarion Gavrilets Bishop of Svalyava, b. 1988
• 3 January 2023Benjamin Voloshchuk Bishop of Boyarsk, b. 1961

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata