Filaret Kucherov

Life

Born

9 August 1972

Monastic tonsure

1996

Elected bishop

23 December 2010

Consecrated bishop

2 January 2011

Made archbishop

28 July 2017

Made metropolitan

17 August 2019

Sees

1. 2 January 2011 – 20 July 2012

   Bishop of Drohobych

   Vicar of Kyiv · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 20 July 2012 – 28 July 2017

   Bishop of Lviv and Halych

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 28 July 2017 – 17 August 2019

   Archbishop of Lviv and Halych

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 17 August 2019 – present

   Metropolitan of Lviv and Halych

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 2 January 2011 by:

• Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014
• Abel Archbishop of Lublin and Chełm, b. 1958
• Victor Oleinik Metropolitan of Tver and Kashin, b. 1940
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Augustine Markevich Metropolitan of Bila Tserkva and Bohuslav, b. 1952
• Anatolyi Gladkyi Metropolitan of Poliske and Sarny, b. 1957
• Symeon Shostatskyi Metropolitan of Vinnytsya and Bar, b. 1962
• Ephrem Kytsai Metropolitan of Kryvyi Rih and Nikopol, b. 1966
• Paul Lebed Metropolitan of Vyshhorod and Chernobyl, b. 1961
• Onufrii Lyogkii Metropolitan of Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv, b. 1970
• Anthony Pakanich Metropolitan of Boryspil and Brovary, b. 1967
• Alexander Drabynko Metropolitan of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi and Vishnevoye, b. 1977
• Panteleimon Bashchuk Archbishop of Bucha, b. 1961
• Ambrose Ermakov Metropolitan of Tver and Kashin, b. 1970
• Feofilakt Kuryanov Archbishop of Pyatigorsk and Cherkessk, b. 1974
• Barnabas Filatov Archbishop of Makiivka, b. 1953
• Nikodim Horenko Metropolitan of Zhytomyr, b. 1972
• Vladimir Melnik Metropolitan of Volodymyr-Volynskyi, b. 1968
• Hilarion Shishkovskii Archbishop of Makariv, 1969–2018
• Panteleimon Povoroznyuk Metropolitan of Luhansk and Alchevsk, b. 1973
• Alexander Nesterchuk Archbishop of Horodnytsa, b. 1950
• Vladimir Orachov Metropolitan of Kamensk and Tsarychanka, b. 1973

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. Filaret Kucherov Metropolitan of Lviv and Halych consecrated 2 January 2011
2. Victor Oleinik Metropolitan of Tver and Kashin, b. 1940 consecrated 4 December 1988
3. Leontii Bondar Metropolitan of Orenburg and Buzuluk, 1913–1999 consecrated 10 August 1956
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 15

• 6 January 2011Feodosii Snigirov Metropolitan of Cherkasy and Kaniv, b. 1974
• 12 February 2011Filaret Zverev Metropolitan of Nova Kakhovka and Henichesk, b. 1971
• 10 September 2011Jonah Cherepanov Archbishop of Obukhiv, b. 1971
• 27 September 2011Nicholas Subbotin Bishop of Salavat and Kumertau, b. 1973
• 17 March 2012Feodosii Chashchin Metropolitan of Samara and Novokuibyshevsk, b. 1973
• 13 May 2012Anthony Kripak Archbishop of Putyvl, b. 1977
• 23 July 2012Clement Vecherya Metropolitan of Nizhyn and Pryluky, b. 1977
• 30 March 2013Varsonofii Vinnichenko Archbishop of Kökşetau and Akmola, b. 1961
• 29 September 2014Victor Bykov Archbishop of Artsyz, b. 1983
• 5 August 2015Nathaniel Krykota Metropolitan of Volyn and Lutsk, b. 1959
• 5 June 2017Victor Kotsaba Metropolitan of Baryshivka and Starokostyantyniv, b. 1983
• 24 December 2017Silvester Stoichev Bishop of Bilohorodka, b. 1980
• 18 June 2018Gedeon Kharon Bishop of Makariv, b. 1960
• 28 August 2021Agafon Opanasenko Bishop of Koktebel, b. 1977
• 11 December 2022Yakov Galandzovskii Bishop of Drohobych, b. 1977

Sources

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