Gedeon Kharon

Life

Born

10 June 1960

Monastic tonsure

7 October 1987

Ordained deacon

8 October 1987

Ordained priest

1989

Elected bishop

25 May 2018

Consecrated bishop

18 June 2018

Retired

20 March 2023

Sees

1. 18 June 2018 – 20 March 2023

   Bishop of Makariv

   Vicar of Kyiv · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 20 March 2023 – present

   Former Bishop of Makariv

   Vicar of Kyiv · Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 18 June 2018 by:

• Onufrii Berezovskii Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, b. 1944
• Paul Lebed Metropolitan of Vyshhorod and Chernobyl, b. 1961
• Ambrose Polikopa Metropolitan of Chernihiv and Novhorod-Siverskyi, b. 1943
• Vladimir Moroz Metropolitan of Pochaiv, b. 1959
• Serapheim Demyaniv Archbishop of Yahotyn, b. 1953
• Panteleimon Povoroznyuk Metropolitan of Luhansk and Alchevsk, b. 1973
• Filaret Kucherov Metropolitan of Lviv and Halych, b. 1972
• Feodosii Snigirov Metropolitan of Cherkasy and Kaniv, b. 1974
• Clement Vecherya Metropolitan of Nizhyn and Pryluky, b. 1977
• Damian Davydov Archbishop of Fastiv, b. 1959
• Nicholas Pochtovyi Metropolitan of Kirovohrad and Novomyrhorod, b. 1970
• Victor Bykov Archbishop of Artsyz, b. 1983
• Victor Kotsaba Metropolitan of Baryshivka and Starokostyantyniv, b. 1983
• Silvester Stoichev Bishop of Bilohorodka, b. 1980
• Spyridon Golovastov Archbishop of Dobropole, b. 1975

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. Gedeon Kharon Bishop of Makariv consecrated 18 June 2018
2. Ambrose Polikopa Metropolitan of Chernihiv and Novhorod-Siverskyi, b. 1943 consecrated 28 June 1998
3. Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014 consecrated 9 July 1966
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 2

• 28 August 2020Irinarkh Tymchuk Archbishop of Novopskov, b. 1987
• 6 June 2021Anthony Pukhkan Bishop of Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi, b. 1974

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata