Varlaam Pilipishin

Life

Born

16 August 1946

Ordained priest

25 February 1973

Consecrated bishop

14 December 1994

Made archbishop

12 December 1998

Retired

13 December 2009

Sees

1. 14 December 1994 – 12 December 1998

   Bishop of Chernivtsi (Cernăuţi) and Sumy

   Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyiv Patriarchate

2. 12 December 1998 – 25 January 1999

   Archbishop of Chernivtsi (Cernăuţi) and Sumy

   Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyiv Patriarchate

3. 25 January 1999 – 13 December 2009

   Archbishop of Kitsman and Zastavna

   Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyiv Patriarchate

4. 13 December 2009 – 15 December 2018

   Former Archbishop of Kitsman and Zastavna

   Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyiv Patriarchate

5. 15 December 2018 – present

   Former Archbishop of Kitsman and Zastavna

   Orthodox Church of Ukraine

Consecration

Consecrated 14 December 1994 by:

• Filaret Denysenko Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus'-Ukraine, b. 1929

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. Varlaam Pilipishin Archbishop of Kitsman and Zastavna consecrated 14 December 1994
2. Filaret Denysenko Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus'-Ukraine, b. 1929 consecrated 4 February 1962
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 2

• 24 March 1996Gerontii Khovanskii Archbishop of Sumy and Vinnytsya, b. 1957
• 16 July 2000Dymytriy Rudyuk Metropolitan of Lviv and Sokal, b. 1971