Jonathan Eletskikh

Life

Born

30 January 1949

Ordained deacon

1976

Monastic tonsure

5 April 1977

Ordained priest

1978

Made archimandrite

11 November 1988

Elected bishop

10 April 1989

Consecrated bishop

23 April 1989

Made archbishop

28 July 1994

Made metropolitan

28 August 2014

Retired

23 October 2024

Sees

1. 23 April 1989 – 22 December 1992

   Bishop of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi

   Vicar of Kyiv · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 22 December 1992 – 27 December 1993

   Bishop of Bila Tserkva

   Vicar of Kyiv · Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 27 December 1993 – 28 July 1994

   Bishop of Hlukhiv and Konotop

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 28 July 1994 – 27 July 1995

   Archbishop of Hlukhiv and Konotop

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 27 July 1995 – 30 March 1999

   Archbishop of Sumy and Okhtyrka

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 30 March 1999 – 22 November 2006

   Archbishop of Kherson and Taurida

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 22 November 2006 – 28 August 2014

   Archbishop of Tulchyn and Bratslav

   Patriarchate of Moscow

8. 28 August 2014 – 23 October 2024

   Metropolitan of Tulchyn and Bratslav

   Patriarchate of Moscow

9. 23 October 2024 – present

   Former Metropolitan of Tulchyn and Bratslav

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 23 April 1989 by:

• Filaret Denysenko Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus'-Ukraine, b. 1929
• Nikodim Rusnak Metropolitan of Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv, 1921–2011
• Anthony Vakarik Metropolitan of Chernihiv and Nizhyn, 1926–2003
• Irinei Serednii Metropolitan of Dnipropetrovsk and Pavlohrad, b. 1939
• Makarii Svistun Metropolitan of Vinnytsya and Mohyliv-Podilskyi, 1938–2007

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 10 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Jonathan Eletskikh Metropolitan of Tulchyn and Bratslav consecrated 23 April 1989
2. Nikodim Rusnak Metropolitan of Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv, 1921–2011 consecrated 10 August 1961
3. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
4. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
5. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
6. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
7. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
8. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
9. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
10. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
11. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 16

• 1 October 1989Basil Vasiltsev Former Archbishop of Kirovohrad and Oleksandriya, 1928–1998
• 14 December 1990Yakiv Panchuk Metropolitan of Lutsk and Volyn, 1931–2004
• 1 August 1994Serapheim Zaliznitskii Metropolitan of Ivano-Frankivsk and Kolomyya, b. 1953
• 13 December 1996John Siopko Metropolitan of Kherson and Taurida, b. 1964
• 15 February 2007Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• 19 December 2007Alexander Drabynko Metropolitan of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi and Vishnevoye, b. 1977
• 18 May 2008Anthony Borovik Former Bishop of Ugolskii, b. 1968
• 24 September 2008Panteleimon Povoroznyuk Metropolitan of Luhansk and Alchevsk, b. 1973
• 13 December 2009Evlogii Patsan Archbishop of Novomoskovsk, b. 1970
• 30 August 2012Damian Davydov Archbishop of Fastiv, b. 1959
• 29 September 2014Victor Bykov Archbishop of Artsyz, b. 1983
• 2 December 2014Paul Timofeyenkov Bishop of Molodechno and Stolbtsy, b. 1963
• 13 December 2016Isaac Andronik Archbishop of Vorzel, b. 1964
• 24 March 2018Sergii Anitsoi Metropolitan of Tulchyn and Bratslav, b. 1979
• 25 March 2018Pimen Voyat Metropolitan of Rivne and Ostroh, b. 1985
• 9 December 2019Paul Valuyskyi Archbishop of Bilovodsk, b. 1977

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru