John Boychuk

Life

Born

6 March 1957

Ordained deacon

1986

Ordained priest

1987

Made archimandrite

24 June 1996

Consecrated bishop

7 July 1996

Retired

8 March 2013

Sees

1. 7 July 1996 – 11 November 1996

   Bishop of Rivne and Ostroh

   Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyiv Patriarchate

2. 11 November 1996 – 4 April 1997

   Bishop of Zhytomyr and Ovruch

   Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyiv Patriarchate

3. 4 April 1997 – 8 March 2013

   Bishop of Kolomyya and Kosiv

   Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyiv Patriarchate

4. 8 March 2013 – 15 December 2018

   Former Bishop of Kolomyya and Kosiv

   Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyiv Patriarchate

5. 15 December 2018 – present

   Former Bishop of Kolomyya and Kosiv

   Orthodox Church of Ukraine

Consecration

Consecrated 7 July 1996 by:

• Andrew Abramchuk Metropolitan of Halych and Ivano-Frankivsk, b. 1949
• Roman Blashchuk/Balashchuk Metropolitan of Vinnytsya and Bratslav, b. 1953
• Peter Petrus Bishop of Lviv and Yavorivsk, b. 1956

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. John Boychuk Bishop of Kolomyya and Kosiv consecrated 7 July 1996
2. Roman Blashchuk/Balashchuk Metropolitan of Vinnytsya and Bratslav, b. 1953 consecrated 22 May 1990
3. John Bodnarchuk Metropolitan of Lutsk and Volyn, 1929–1994 consecrated 23 October 1977
4. Nicholas Yurik Metropolitan of Lviv and Ternopil, 1910–1984 consecrated 31 October 1965
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