Savva Babinets

Life

Born

27 March 1926

Monastic tonsure

17 November 1947

Ordained deacon

29 November 1948

Ordained priest

16 July 1950

Made archimandrite

23 March 1969

Consecrated bishop

30 March 1969

Made archbishop

5 April 1990

Died

24 February 1992

Sees

1. 30 March 1969 – 1972

   Bishop of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi

   Vicar of Kyiv · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1972 – 1977

   Bishop of Chernivtsi (Cernăuţi) and Bukovina

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 1977 – 1985

   Bishop of Mukachevo and Uzhhorod

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 1985 – 5 April 1990

   Bishop of Poltava and Kremenchuk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 5 April 1990 – 24 February 1992

   Archbishop of Poltava and Kremenchuk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 30 March 1969 by:

• Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978
• Filaret Denysenko Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus'-Ukraine, b. 1929
• Gregory Zakalyak Archbishop of Mukachevo and Uzhhorod, 1908–1984
• Damian Marchuk Archbishop of Volyn and Rivne, 1899–1987
• Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014

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. Savva Babinets Archbishop of Poltava and Kremenchuk consecrated 30 March 1969
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 5

• 28 July 1971Nicholas Bychkovskii Archbishop of Perm and Solikamsk, 1893–1981
• 22 October 1972Varlaam Ilyushchenko Archbishop of Volyn and Rivne, 1929–1990
• 16 December 1973Platon Udovenko Metropolitan of Feodosiya and Kerch, b. 1940
• 23 October 1977John Bodnarchuk Metropolitan of Lutsk and Volyn, 1929–1994
• 13 October 1985Anthony Moskalenko Archbishop of the Urals and Atyrau, 1940–2025

Sources

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