Agafon Opanasenko

Life

Born

13 November 1977

Ordained deacon

11 October 2004

Monastic tonsure

23 May 2005

Ordained priest

11 September 2006

Made hegumen

28 August 2008

Made archimandrite

28 August 2015

Elected bishop

17 August 2021

Consecrated bishop

28 August 2021

Sees

1. 28 August 2021 – present

   Bishop of Koktebel

   Vicar of Feodosiya · Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 28 August 2021 by:

• Onufrii Berezovskii Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, b. 1944
• Hilarion Shukalo Metropolitan of Donetsk and Mariupol, b. 1951
• Paul Lebed Metropolitan of Vyshhorod and Chernobyl, b. 1961
• Anthony Pakanich Metropolitan of Boryspil and Brovary, b. 1967
• Filaret Kucherov Metropolitan of Lviv and Halych, b. 1972
• Clement Vecherya Metropolitan of Nizhyn and Pryluky, b. 1977
• Anthony Kripak Archbishop of Putyvl, b. 1977
• Damian Davydov Archbishop of Fastiv, b. 1959
• Victor Kotsaba Metropolitan of Baryshivka and Starokostyantyniv, b. 1983
• Silvester Stoichev Bishop of Bilohorodka, b. 1980
• Dionisii Pilipchuk Archbishop of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi, b. 1979
• Andrew Vasilashku Archbishop of Petropavl, b. 1979
• Ambrose Vainagii Archbishop of Zhurivka, b. 1985
• Spyridon Romanov Archbishop of Vishnevka, b. 1980
• Laurus Berezovskyi Bishop of Irpin, b. 1986
• Mark Andryuk Bishop of Borodyanka, b. 1988
• Cyril Bilan Bishop of Byshiv, 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. Agafon Opanasenko Bishop of Koktebel consecrated 28 August 2021
2. Hilarion Shukalo Metropolitan of Donetsk and Mariupol, b. 1951 consecrated 29 September 1991
3. Filaret Denysenko Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus'-Ukraine, b. 1929 consecrated 4 February 1962
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

Sources

Also in: Wikidata