Luke Kovalenko

Life

Born

11 July 1971

Ordained deacon

March 1998

Ordained priest

May 1999

Monastic tonsure

25 December 2003

Made archimandrite

May 2004

Consecrated bishop

12 November 2005

Made archbishop

29 April 2008

Made metropolitan

17 August 2016

Sees

1. 12 November 2005 – 29 April 2008

   Bishop of Vasylkiv

   Vicar of Kyiv · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 29 April 2008 – 8 May 2008

   Archbishop of Vasylkiv

   Vicar of Kyiv · Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 8 May 2008 – 23 December 2010

   Archbishop of Konotop

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 23 December 2010 – 17 August 2016

   Archbishop of Zaporizhzhya and Melitopol

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 8 May 2012 – 20 July 2012

   Locum tenens of Berdyansk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 17 August 2016 – present

   Metropolitan of Zaporizhzhya and Melitopol

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 12 November 2005. His consecrators are not yet in the data.

Bishops he consecrated 12

• 4 December 2005Arsenii Yakovenko Metropolitan of Svyatohirsk, b. 1968
• 28 January 2007Mitrofan Nikitin Metropolitan of Horlivka and Slovyansk, b. 1976
• 4 June 2007Nikodim Horenko Metropolitan of Zhytomyr, b. 1972
• 10 June 2007Irinei Semko Metropolitan of Nizhyn and Pryluky, 1963–2017
• 11 June 2007Vladimir Melnik Metropolitan of Volodymyr-Volynskyi, b. 1968
• 19 December 2007Alexander Drabynko Metropolitan of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi and Vishnevoye, b. 1977
• 13 December 2009Evlogii Patsan Archbishop of Novomoskovsk, b. 1970
• 13 May 2012Anthony Kripak Archbishop of Putyvl, b. 1977
• 5 August 2012Ephrem Yarinko Bishop of Berdyansk and Primorye, b. 1978
• 30 March 2013Varsonofii Vinnichenko Archbishop of Kökşetau and Akmola, b. 1961
• 5 June 2017Victor Kotsaba Metropolitan of Baryshivka and Starokostyantyniv, b. 1983
• 12 February 2019Luke Muryanka Bishop of Syracuse, b. 1951