Jonah Cherepanov

Life

Born

29 December 1971

Ordained deacon

15 April 1995

Monastic tonsure

24 August 1995

Ordained priest

27 August 1995

Made archimandrite

4 November 1999

Elected bishop

26 August 2011

Consecrated bishop

10 September 2011

Made archbishop

17 August 2017

Sees

1. 10 September 2011 – 17 August 2017

   Bishop of Obukhiv

   Vicar of Kyiv · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 17 August 2017 – present

   Archbishop of Obukhiv

   Vicar of Kyiv · Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 10 September 2011 by:

• Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014
• Onufrii Berezovskii Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, b. 1944
• Mitrofan Yurchuk Metropolitan of Luhansk and Alchevsk, 1962–2021
• Alexander Drabynko Metropolitan of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi and Vishnevoye, b. 1977
• Agapit Bevtsik Metropolitan of Mohyliv-Podilskyi and Sharhorod, b. 1965
• Irinei Semko Metropolitan of Nizhyn and Pryluky, 1963–2017
• Hilarion Shishkovskii Archbishop of Makariv, 1969–2018
• Serapheim Demyaniv Archbishop of Yahotyn, b. 1953
• Anthony Borovik Former Bishop of Ugolskii, b. 1968
• Panteleimon Povoroznyuk Metropolitan of Luhansk and Alchevsk, b. 1973
• Filaret Kucherov Metropolitan of Lviv and Halych, b. 1972

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. Jonah Cherepanov Archbishop of Obukhiv consecrated 10 September 2011
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 11

• 22 May 2012Longin Zhar Metropolitan of Bancheny, b. 1965
• 30 August 2012Damian Davydov Archbishop of Fastiv, b. 1959
• 23 December 2012Bogolep Goncharenko Metropolitan of Oleksandriya and Svitlovodsk, b. 1978
• 17 March 2013Nicholas Pochtovyi Metropolitan of Kirovohrad and Novomyrhorod, b. 1970
• 29 September 2013Diodor Vasilchuk Archbishop of Yuzhne, b. 1979
• 29 June 2014Nicholas Olkhovskii Metropolitan of New York and Eastern America, b. 1974
• 29 September 2014Victor Bykov Archbishop of Artsyz, b. 1983
• 6 December 2015Benjamin Pogrebnoi Archbishop of Novi Sanzhary, b. 1979
• 31 July 2016Cassian Shostak Archbishop of Ivanovo, b. 1968
• 27 September 2018Nestor Donenko Bishop of Yalta, b. 1958
• 11 December 2022Yakov Galandzovskii Bishop of Drohobych, b. 1977

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata