John Kovalenko

Life

Born

1 February 1970

Ordained deacon

19 April 1992

Ordained priest

24 May 1992

Monastic tonsure

1 January 1997

Elected bishop

2 October 2013

Made archimandrite

5 October 2013

Consecrated bishop

6 November 2013

Sees

1. 6 November 2013 – present

   Bishop of Kalach-na-Donu and Pallasovka

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 6 November 2013 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Hilarion Alfeyev Metropolitan of Budapest and Hungary, b. 1966
• Herman Timofeyev Metropolitan of Volgograd, b. 1937
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• Elisei Fomkin Bishop of Uryupinsk and Novoanninskii, b. 1963

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. John Kovalenko Bishop of Kalach-na-Donu and Pallasovka consecrated 6 November 2013
2. Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946 consecrated 14 March 1976
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

• 23 November 2014Flavian Mitrofanov Bishop of Cherepovets and Belozersk, b. 1975
• 3 June 2018Feoktist Igumnov Bishop of Pereslavl and Uglich, b. 1977

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata