Varsonofii Vinnichenko

Life

Born

19 March 1961

Ordained deacon

7 January 1995

Ordained priest

19 January 1995

Monastic tonsure

21 August 1996

Made archimandrite

15 April 2004

Elected bishop

15 March 2013

Consecrated bishop

30 March 2013

Made archbishop

17 August 2022

Sees

1. 30 March 2013 – 17 August 2022

   Bishop of Novoazovsk

   Vicar of Donetsk · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 17 August 2022 – 20 March 2025

   Archbishop of Novoazovsk

   Vicar of Donetsk · Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 20 March 2025 – present

   Archbishop of Kökşetau and Akmola

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 30 March 2013 by:

• Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014
• Hilarion Shukalo Metropolitan of Donetsk and Mariupol, b. 1951
• Anthony Pakanich Metropolitan of Boryspil and Brovary, b. 1967
• Paul Lebed Metropolitan of Vyshhorod and Chernobyl, b. 1961
• Luke Kovalenko Metropolitan of Zaporizhzhya and Melitopol, b. 1971
• Arsenii Yakovenko Metropolitan of Svyatohirsk, b. 1968
• Serapheim Demyaniv Archbishop of Yahotyn, b. 1953
• Alexander Drabynko Metropolitan of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi and Vishnevoye, b. 1977
• Elisei Ivanov Metropolitan of Izyum and Kupyansk, b. 1973
• Mitrofan Nikitin Metropolitan of Horlivka and Slovyansk, b. 1976
• Barnabas Filatov Archbishop of Makiivka, b. 1953
• Vladimir Orachov Metropolitan of Kamensk and Tsarychanka, b. 1973
• Filaret Kucherov Metropolitan of Lviv and Halych, b. 1972

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. Varsonofii Vinnichenko Archbishop of Kökşetau and Akmola consecrated 30 March 2013
2. Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014 consecrated 9 July 1966
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

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata