Sofronii Yushchuk

Life

Born

11 April 1951

Monastic tonsure

9 April 1987

Ordained deacon

21 April 1987

Ordained priest

20 May 1987

Made archimandrite

1 May 1994

Consecrated bishop

4 February 2001

Made archbishop

1 February 2018

Sees

1. 4 February 2001 – 2002

   Bishop of Brest and Kobryn

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 2002 – 1 February 2018

   Bishop of Mahilioŭ and Mstsislaw

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 1 February 2018 – present

   Archbishop of Mahilioŭ and Mstsislaw

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 4 February 2001 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Filaret Vakhromeyev Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk, 1935–2021

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 11 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Sofronii Yushchuk Archbishop of Mahilioŭ and Mstsislaw consecrated 4 February 2001
2. Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946 consecrated 14 March 1976
3. Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978 consecrated 10 July 1960
4. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
5. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
6. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
7. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
8. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
9. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
10. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
11. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
12. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 2

• 30 January 2005Stephen Neshcheret Archbishop of Homieĺ and Zhlobin, b. 1966
• 5 June 2022Evsevii Tyukhlov Bishop of Drutsk, b. 1975