Filaret Denysenko

Life

Born

28 January 1929

Monastic tonsure

1 January 1950

Ordained deacon

15 January 1950

Ordained priest

1952

Made archimandrite

12 July 1958

Consecrated bishop

4 February 1962

Made archbishop

14 May 1966

Made metropolitan

25 February 1968

Sees

1. 4 February 1962 – 10 October 1962

   Bishop of Luga

   Vicar of Leningrad · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 10 October 1962 – 16 November 1962

   Bishop of Luga

   Vicar of the Exarchate of Central Europe · Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 16 November 1962 – 22 December 1964

   Bishop of Vienna and Austria

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 22 December 1964 – 14 May 1966

   Bishop of Dmitrov

   Vicar of Moscow · Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 14 May 1966 – 25 February 1968

   Archbishop of Kyiv and Halych

   Exarch of Ukraine · Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 25 February 1968 – 1990

   Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych

   Exarch of Ukraine · Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 1990 – 1991

   Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine

   Patriarchate of Moscow

8. 1991 – 1992

   Metropolitan of No See

   Patriarchate of Moscow

9. 1992 – 22 October 1995

   Metropolitan of Deputy of the Patriarch of the UOC-KP

   Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyiv Patriarchate

10. 22 October 1995 – 15 December 2018

    Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus'-Ukraine

    Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyiv Patriarchate

11. 15 December 2018 – 20 June 2019

    Archbishop, Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Rus'-Ukraine

    Orthodox Church of Ukraine

12. 20 June 2019 – present

    Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus'-Ukraine

    Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyiv Patriarchate

Consecration

Consecrated 4 February 1962 by:

• Pimen Izvekov Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1910–1990
• Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978
• Michael Voskresenskii Archbishop of Kazan and Mari El, 1897–1976
• Michael Chub Archbishop of Tambov and Michurinsk, 1912–1985
• Sergii Golubtsov Archbishop of Kazan and Mari El, 1906–1982
• Cyprian Zyornov Archbishop of Berlin and Central Europe, 1911–1987
• Nikodim Rusnak Metropolitan of Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv, 1921–2011

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. Filaret Denysenko Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus'-Ukraine consecrated 4 February 1962
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 87

• 30 December 1962Vladimir Kotlyarov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1929–2022
• 12 February 1965Anthony Vakarik Metropolitan of Chernihiv and Nizhyn, 1926–2003
• 21 February 1965Boris Skvortsov Bishop of Ryazan and Kasimov, 1895–1972
• 17 June 1965Melkhisedek Lebedev Archbishop of Bryansk and Sevsk, 1927–2016
• 28 November 1965Jonathan Kopolovich Archbishop of Chișinău and Moldova, 1912–1990
• 12 December 1965John Snychyov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Ladoga, 1927–1995
• 26 December 1965Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• 20 March 1966Dionisii Lukin Bishop of Rotterdam, 1911–1976
• 25 December 1966Hermogen Orekhov Archbishop of Krasnodar and Kuban, 1929–1980
• 4 June 1967Feodosii Dikun Metropolitan of Poltava and Kremenchuk, 1926–2001
• 12 September 1968Peter L'Huiller Archbishop of New York and New Jersey, 1926–2007
• 30 March 1969Savva Babinets Archbishop of Poltava and Kremenchuk, 1926–1992
• 7 June 1970Makarii Svistun Metropolitan of Vinnytsya and Mohyliv-Podilskyi, 1938–2007
• 26 July 1970Meliton Solovyov Archbishop of Tikhvin, 1897–1986
• 28 July 1971Nicholas Bychkovskii Archbishop of Perm and Solikamsk, 1893–1981
• 5 March 1972Serapion Fadeyev Metropolitan of Tula and Belyov, 1933–1999
• 26 March 1972Maksim Krokha Archbishop of Mahilioŭ and Mstsislaw, 1928–2002
• 22 October 1972Varlaam Ilyushchenko Archbishop of Volyn and Rivne, 1929–1990
• 3 June 1973Victorin Belyayev Archbishop of Vilnius and Lithuania, 1903–1990
• 16 December 1973Platon Udovenko Metropolitan of Feodosiya and Kerch, b. 1940
• 3 January 1975Job Tyvonyuk Metropolitan of Chelyabinsk and Zlatoust, 1938–2020
• 16 November 1975Agafangel Savvin Metropolitan of Odessa and Izmail, b. 1938
• 14 March 1976Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• 9 May 1976Gleb Smirnov Archbishop of Oryol and Bryansk, 1913–1987
• 16 October 1977Sebastian Pilipchuk Bishop of Kirovohrad and Mykolaiv, 1914–1992
• 23 October 1977John Bodnarchuk Metropolitan of Lutsk and Volyn, 1929–1994
• 18 April 1980Lazar Shvets Metropolitan of Simferopol and the Crimea, 1939–2026
• 30 June 1985Vladimir Ikim Metropolitan of Tashkent and Central Asia, b. 1940
• 13 October 1985Anthony Moskalenko Archbishop of the Urals and Atyrau, 1940–2025
• 8 February 1987Palladii Shiman Bishop of Chita and Zabaikal, 1939–2000
• 28 July 1988Mark Petrovtsy Metropolitan of Khust and Vynohradiv, b. 1951
• 1 December 1988Aleksii Kutepov Metropolitan of Tula and Yefremov, b. 1953
• 13 December 1988Ioannikii Kobzev Metropolitan of Luhansk and Alchevsk, 1938–2020
• 23 April 1989Jonathan Eletskikh Metropolitan of Tulchyn and Bratslav, b. 1949
• 28 July 1989Evfimii Shutak Archbishop of Mukachevo and Uzhhorod, 1934–2000
• 1 October 1989Basil Vasiltsev Former Archbishop of Kirovohrad and Oleksandriya, 1928–1998
• 24 February 1990Bartholomew Vashchuk Metropolitan of Rivne and Ostroh, 1953–2021
• 22 May 1990Roman Blashchuk/Balashchuk Metropolitan of Vinnytsya and Bratslav, b. 1953
• 2 August 1990Gleb Savin Bishop of Polatsk, 1945–1998
• 2 December 1990Basil Zlatolinskii Archbishop of Zaporizhzhya and Melitopol, 1932–2022
• 9 December 1990Onufrii Berezovskii Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, b. 1944
• 14 December 1990Yakiv Panchuk Metropolitan of Lutsk and Volyn, 1931–2004
• 17 February 1991Sergii Gensitskii Metropolitan of Ternopil and Kremenets, b. 1951
• 29 September 1991Hilarion Shukalo Metropolitan of Donetsk and Mariupol, b. 1951
• 6 October 1991Alipii Pogrebnyak Archbishop of Krasnyi Lyman, 1945–2021
• 18 April 1992Sofroniy Vlasov Bishop of Dubăsari and Transnistria, d. 2011
• 7 June 1992Spyridon Babskii Former Archbishop of Lutsk and Volyn, 1958–2011
• 8 June 1992Varsonofiy Mazurak Archbishop of Ivano-Frankivsk and Kolomyya, d. 2019
• 15 November 1992Nestor Kulish Metropolitan of Odessa, 1925–2005
• 17 December 1992Stephen Ladchuk Bishop of Yahotyn, b. 1936
• 13 March 1993Volodymyr Ladyka Metropolitan of Mykolaiv and Bogoyavlensk, b. 1956
• 10 April 1993Polycarp Huts Bishop of Donetsk and Luhansk, 1927–1993
• 7 July 1993Aleksii Tsaruk Bishop of Mikolaiv, d. 1994
• 14 December 1993Baruch Tyshchenkov/Tishchenkov Bishop of Yeniseisk and Tobolsk, b. 1956
• 16 January 1994Alexander Reshetnyak Archbishop of Bohuslav, b. 1954
• 6 February 1994Adrian Staryna Metropolitan of Bogorodsk, b. 1943
• 11 September 1994Izyaslav Karga Archbishop of Makariv, b. 1949
• 14 December 1994Varlaam Pilipishin Archbishop of Kitsman and Zastavna, b. 1946
• 19 February 1995Joasaph Shibayev Metropolitan of Belgorod and Oboyan, b. 1954
• 11 May 1995Job Pavlyshyn Archbishop of Ternopil and Kremenets, 1956–2019
• 10 October 1995Gregory Kachan/Kochan Archbishop of Zaporizhzhya and Melitopol, 1939–2016
• 24 March 1996Gerontii Khovanskii Archbishop of Sumy and Vinnytsya, b. 1957
• 23 February 1997Vladimir Polishchuk Metropolitan of Kherson and the Crimea, b. 1949
• 6 April 1997Joasaph Vasylykiv Metropolitan of Ivano-Frankivsk and Halych, b. 1955
• 19 October 1997Damian Zamarayev Archbishop of Kherson and Taurida, b. 1931
• 26 March 2000Timothy Kutalyanos Metropolitan of Korsun, 1942–2004
• 16 July 2000Dymytriy Rudyuk Metropolitan of Lviv and Sokal, b. 1971
• 23 July 2000Clement Kushch Archbishop of Simferopol and the Crimea, b. 1969
• 5 November 2000Flavian Pasichnik Bishop of Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv, 1944–2010
• 30 March 2003John Yaremenko Metropolitan of Cherkasy and Chyhyryn, b. 1967
• 6 April 2003Vsevolod Matvievskyi Bishop of Slovyansk, b. 1942
• 3 August 2003Cyril Mykhaylyuk Bishop of Uzhhorod and Khust, b. 1963
• 31 July 2005Filaret Pancu Archbishop of Făleşti and Eastern Moldova, b. 1965
• 5 March 2006Nestor Pysyk Metropolitan of Ternopil and Kremenets, b. 1979
• 14 May 2008Hilarion Protsyk Archbishop of Rivne and Ostroh, b. 1980
• 13 December 2008Peter Moskalyov Bishop of Valuiki, b. 1979
• 1 February 2009Mark Levkiv Archbishop of Kropyvyntskyi and Holovanivsk, b. 1979
• 29 March 2009Paul Kravchuk Bishop of Ternopil and Terebovlya, b. 1965
• 15 November 2009Epifaniy Dumenko Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, b. 1979
• 21 November 2009Symeon Zinkevych Archbishop of Dnipro and Kryvyi Rih, b. 1979
• 22 November 2009Tikhon Petranyuk Archbishop of Ternopil and Bucha, b. 1976
• 17 December 2009Mark Grynchevskyy Bishop of Dunaivtsi, b. 1978
• 8 August 2010Agapit Humenyuk Archbishop of Vyshhorod, b. 1980
• 19 February 2012Julian Gatala Bishop of Kolomyya and Kosiv, b. 1980
• 25 August 2013Mitrofan Butynskyi Archbishop of Kharkiv and Sloboda, b. 1978
• 17 December 2014Fotiy Davydenko Bishop of Zaporizhzhya and Melitopol, b. 1980
• 28 January 2018Paul Yurystyy Bishop of Odessa and Balta, b. 1980

Sources

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