Mefodii Kudryakov

Life

Born

11 March 1949

Ordained deacon

27 June 1981

Ordained priest

28 June 1981

Monastic tonsure

1993

Consecrated bishop

17 June 1995

Made archbishop

1997

Made metropolitan

1999

Died

24 February 2015

Sees

1. 17 June 1995 – 19 October 1995

   Bishop of Khmelnytskyi and Kamyanets-Podilskyi

   Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyiv Patriarchate

2. 19 October 1995 – 1997

   Bishop of Khmelnytskyi and Kamyanets-Podilskyi

   Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church

3. 1997 – 1999

   Archbishop of Khmelnytskyi and Kamyanets-Podilskyi

   Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church

4. 1999 – 1 March 2000

   Metropolitan of Khmelnytskyi and Kamyanets-Podilskyi

   Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church

5. 1 March 2000 – 2002

   Metropolitan of Ternopil and Podilsk

   Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church

6. 2002 – 24 February 2015

   Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine

   Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church

Consecration

Consecrated 17 June 1995 by:

• Volodymyr Romanyuk Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus'-Ukraine, 1925–1995
• Izyaslav Karga Archbishop of Makariv, b. 1949

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. Mefodii Kudryakov Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine consecrated 17 June 1995
2. Izyaslav Karga Archbishop of Makariv, b. 1949 consecrated 11 September 1994
3. Filaret Denysenko Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus'-Ukraine, b. 1929 consecrated 4 February 1962
4. Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978 consecrated 10 July 1960
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 11

• 17 June 1996John Modzalevskii Archbishop of Uman, b. 1970
• 3 November 1996Makarii Maletych Metropolitan of Lviv, b. 1944
• 17 December 1996Stephen Linitskii Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Mozhaisk, b. 1934
• 10 October 2002Adrian Kulyk Bishop of Shepetivka, b. 1972
• 20 March 2004Basil Kostyuk Former Bishop of Brooklyn and Baranovich, b. 1971
• 3 November 2005Hilarion Savchuk Bishop of Cherkasy and Kirovohrad, 1969–2015
• 16 November 2009Herman Semanchuk Archbishop of Chernivtsi (Cernăuţi) and Khotyn, b. 1973
• 29 October 2010John Shvets Bishop of Svyatoshyn, b. 1955
• 16 November 2010Volodymyr Cherpak Bishop of Fastiv, b. 1952
• 29 December 2010Mstyslav Huk Archbishop of Ternopil and Podilsk, b. 1978
• 14 September 2014Gerontii Olyanskyy Bishop of Boyarka, b. 1979

Sources

Also in: Wikidata