Arkadii Demchenko

Life

Born

12 May 1979

Ordained deacon

9 October 2000

Ordained priest

9 November 2006

Monastic tonsure

27 March 2007

Made archimandrite

1 May 2011

Elected bishop

20 December 2022

Consecrated bishop

4 January 2023

Sees

1. 4 January 2023 – present

   Bishop of Hostomel

   Vicar of Kyiv · Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 4 January 2023 by:

• Onufrii Berezovskii Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, b. 1944

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. Arkadii Demchenko Bishop of Hostomel consecrated 4 January 2023
2. Onufrii Berezovskii Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, b. 1944 consecrated 9 December 1990
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

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru