John Yaremenko

Life

Born

12 September 1967

Monastic tonsure

10 April 1997

Ordained deacon

13 April 1997

Ordained priest

3 May 1998

Consecrated bishop

30 March 2003

Made archbishop

21 January 2009

Made metropolitan

23 January 2012

Sees

1. 30 March 2003 – 21 January 2009

   Bishop of Cherkasy and Chyhyryn

   Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyiv Patriarchate

2. 21 January 2009 – 23 January 2012

   Bishop of Cherkasy and Chyhyryn

   Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyiv Patriarchate

3. 23 January 2012 – 15 December 2018

   Metropolitan of Cherkasy and Chyhyryn

   Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyiv Patriarchate

4. 15 December 2018 – present

   Metropolitan of Cherkasy and Chyhyryn

   Orthodox Church of Ukraine

Consecration

Consecrated 30 March 2003 by:

• Filaret Denysenko Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus'-Ukraine, b. 1929
• Joasaph Shibayev Metropolitan of Belgorod and Oboyan, b. 1954
• Dymytriy Rudyuk Metropolitan of Lviv and Sokal, b. 1971

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. John Yaremenko Metropolitan of Cherkasy and Chyhyryn consecrated 30 March 2003
2. Filaret Denysenko Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus'-Ukraine, b. 1929 consecrated 4 February 1962
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

Bishops he consecrated 3

• 13 December 2008Peter Moskalyov Bishop of Valuiki, b. 1979
• 1 February 2009Mark Levkiv Archbishop of Kropyvyntskyi and Holovanivsk, b. 1979
• 4 December 2019Nikodim Kulygin Bishop of Henichesk, b. 1968

Sources

Also in: Wikidata