Anthony Vakarik

Life

Born

26 June 1926

Ordained deacon

1947

Monastic tonsure

2 February 1947

Ordained priest

27 May 1950

Made archimandrite

7 February 1965

Consecrated bishop

12 February 1965

Made archbishop

9 September 1974

Made metropolitan

25 February 1992

Died

15 July 2003

Sees

1. 12 February 1965 – 1965

   Bishop of Smolensk and Dorogobuzh

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1965 – 1967

   Bishop of Smolensk and Vyazma

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 1967 – 1973

   Bishop of Simferopol and the Crimea

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 1973 – 9 September 1974

   Bishop of Chernihiv and Nizhyn

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 9 September 1974 – 25 February 1992

   Archbishop of Chernihiv and Nizhyn

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 25 February 1992 – 15 July 2003

   Metropolitan of Chernihiv and Nizhyn

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 12 February 1965 by:

• Pimen Izvekov Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1910–1990
• Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978
• Leontii Gudimov Metropolitan of Donetsk and Slovyansk, 1928–1992
• Filaret Denysenko Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus'-Ukraine, b. 1929
• Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003

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. Anthony Vakarik Metropolitan of Chernihiv and Nizhyn consecrated 12 February 1965
2. Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978 consecrated 10 July 1960
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 11

• 22 October 1967Gedeon Dokukin Metropolitan of Stavropol and Vladikavkaz, 1929–2003
• 16 November 1975Agafangel Savvin Metropolitan of Odessa and Izmail, b. 1938
• 16 October 1977Sebastian Pilipchuk Bishop of Kirovohrad and Mykolaiv, 1914–1992
• 18 April 1980Lazar Shvets Metropolitan of Simferopol and the Crimea, 1939–2026
• 13 October 1985Anthony Moskalenko Archbishop of the Urals and Atyrau, 1940–2025
• 8 February 1987Palladii Shiman Bishop of Chita and Zabaikal, 1939–2000
• 28 July 1988Mark Petrovtsy Metropolitan of Khust and Vynohradiv, b. 1951
• 23 April 1989Jonathan Eletskikh Metropolitan of Tulchyn and Bratslav, b. 1949
• 28 July 1989Evfimii Shutak Archbishop of Mukachevo and Uzhhorod, 1934–2000
• 1 October 1989Basil Vasiltsev Former Archbishop of Kirovohrad and Oleksandriya, 1928–1998
• 14 December 1990Yakiv Panchuk Metropolitan of Lutsk and Volyn, 1931–2004

Sources

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