Lazar Shvets

Life

Born

22 April 1939

Ordained deacon

5 March 1971

Ordained priest

12 March 1971

Monastic tonsure

1 April 1980

Made archimandrite

7 April 1980

Consecrated bishop

18 April 1980

Made archbishop

20 July 1985

Made metropolitan

25 November 2000

Retired

11 October 2023

Died

17 January 2026

Sees

1. 18 April 1980 – 20 July 1985

   Bishop of Argentina and South America

   Exarch of Central and South America · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. June 1985 – October 1985

   Locum tenens of Ivano-Frankivsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 20 July 1985 – 10 April 1989

   Archbishop of Argentina and South America

   Exarch of Central and South America · Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 10 April 1989 – 11 February 1991

   Archbishop of Ternopil

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 11 February 1991 – 27 July 1992

   Archbishop of Odessa and Kherson

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 27 July 1992 – 25 November 2000

   Archbishop of Simferopol and the Crimea

   Patriarchate of Moscow

7. 25 November 2000 – 11 October 2023

   Metropolitan of Simferopol and the Crimea

   Patriarchate of Moscow

8. 11 October 2023 – 17 January 2026

   Former Metropolitan of Simferopol and the Crimea

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 18 April 1980 by:

• Filaret Denysenko Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus'-Ukraine, b. 1929
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Nikodim Rusnak Metropolitan of Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv, 1921–2011
• Anthony Vakarik Metropolitan of Chernihiv and Nizhyn, 1926–2003
• Makarii Svistun Metropolitan of Vinnytsya and Mohyliv-Podilskyi, 1938–2007
• Varlaam Ilyushchenko Archbishop of Volyn and Rivne, 1929–1990
• John Bodnarchuk Metropolitan of Lutsk and Volyn, 1929–1994

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. Lazar Shvets Metropolitan of Simferopol and the Crimea consecrated 18 April 1980
2. Nikodim Rusnak Metropolitan of Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv, 1921–2011 consecrated 10 August 1961
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 9

• 28 July 1988Mark Petrovtsy Metropolitan of Khust and Vynohradiv, b. 1951
• 14 December 1990Yakiv Panchuk Metropolitan of Lutsk and Volyn, 1931–2004
• 17 February 1991Sergii Gensitskii Metropolitan of Ternopil and Kremenets, b. 1951
• 19 December 2007Alexander Drabynko Metropolitan of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi and Vishnevoye, b. 1977
• 18 May 2008Anthony Borovik Former Bishop of Ugolskii, b. 1968
• 24 September 2008Panteleimon Povoroznyuk Metropolitan of Luhansk and Alchevsk, b. 1973
• 20 November 2008Nektarii Frolov Bishop of Taldykorgan, b. 1961
• 14 February 2010Alipii Kozolii Metropolitan of Dzhankoi and Razdolne, 1971–2021
• 27 September 2018Nestor Donenko Bishop of Yalta, b. 1958

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata