Nikodim Rusnak

Life

Born

18 April 1921

Monastic tonsure

6 January 1945

Ordained deacon

29 April 1945

Ordained priest

23 February 1946

Made archimandrite

15 November 1958

Consecrated bishop

10 August 1961

Made archbishop

25 February 1968

Made metropolitan

9 April 1985

Died

15 September 2011

Sees

1. 10 August 1961 – 21 April 1964

   Bishop of Kostroma and Halych

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 21 April 1964 – 25 February 1968

   Bishop of Argentina and South America

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 25 February 1968 – 1 December 1970

   Archbishop of Argentina and South America

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 1 December 1970 – 23 November 1983

   Archbishop of Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 23 November 1983 – 9 April 1985

   Archbishop of Lviv and Ternopil

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 9 April 1985 – 28 December 1988

   Metropolitan of Lviv and Ternopil

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 28 December 1988 – 13 September 1989

   Metropolitan of Lviv and Drohobych

   Patriarchate of Moscow

8. 13 September 1989 – 15 September 2011

   Metropolitan of Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 10 August 1961 by:

• Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970
• Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978
• John Vendland Metropolitan of Yaroslavl, 1909–1989
• Cyprian Zyornov Archbishop of Berlin and Central Europe, 1911–1987

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 9 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Nikodim Rusnak Metropolitan of Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv consecrated 10 August 1961
2. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
3. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
4. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
5. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
6. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
7. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
8. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
9. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
10. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 20

• 3 September 1961Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• 10 September 1961Nicholas Kutepov Metropolitan of Gorky and Arzamas, 1924–2001
• 4 February 1962Filaret Denysenko Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus'-Ukraine, b. 1929
• 29 August 1962Mefodii Menzak Archbishop of Omsk and Tyumen, 1914–1974
• 26 May 1963Bartholomew Gondarovskii Archbishop of Oryol and Bryansk, 1927–1988
• 9 November 1963Bogolep Antsukh Archbishop of Kirovohrad and Mykolaiv, 1911–1978
• 30 October 1966Joasaph Ovsyannikov Archbishop of Rostov and Novocherkassk, 1904–1984
• 28 July 1971Nicholas Bychkovskii Archbishop of Perm and Solikamsk, 1893–1981
• 3 June 1973Victorin Belyayev Archbishop of Vilnius and Lithuania, 1903–1990
• 16 December 1973Platon Udovenko Metropolitan of Feodosiya and Kerch, b. 1940
• 16 October 1977Sebastian Pilipchuk Bishop of Kirovohrad and Mykolaiv, 1914–1992
• 18 April 1980Lazar Shvets Metropolitan of Simferopol and the Crimea, 1939–2026
• 8 August 1982Clement Kapalin Metropolitan of Kaluga and Borovsk, b. 1949
• 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
• 23 April 1989Jonathan Eletskikh Metropolitan of Tulchyn and Bratslav, b. 1949
• 28 July 1989Evfimii Shutak Archbishop of Mukachevo and Uzhhorod, 1934–2000
• 14 December 1990Yakiv Panchuk Metropolitan of Lutsk and Volyn, 1931–2004

Sources

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