List of bishops of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine

This is the list of the episcopes of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, depicting the organization of the church.

Active episcopes

Eparchial (ruling) episcopes

No.	Hierarchs (Archiereus)			Consecrated		Status
	Name	Rank	Title	Date	Lead
1	Epiphanius I of Ukraine	metropolitan	Kyiv and all Ukraine	November 15, 2009	Filaret (Denysenko)	Primate
2	Andriy	metropolitan	Halych	April 7, 1990	Ioan (Bodnarchuk)	Ruling
3	Daniil	metropolitan	Chernivtsi and Bukovyna	April 28, 1990[p 1]	Ioan (Bodnarchuk)	Ruling
4	Roman	metropolitan	Vinnytsia and Bratslav	May 22, 1990[p 2]	Ioan (Bodnarchuk)	Ruling
5	Volodymyr	metropolitan	Mykolaiv and Bohoiavlensky	March 13, 1993	Filaret (Denysenko)	Ruling
6	Adrian	metropolitan	Bohorodsky	February 6, 1994	Volodymyr (Romaniuk)[1]	Ruling[p 3]
7	Simeon	metropolitan	Vinnytsia and Bar	May 4, 1996	Volodymyr (Romaniuk)	Ruling
8	Mikhail	metropolitan	Korsun	May 12, 1996	Evloghios (Hessler)	Ruling[p 3]
9	Antony	metropolitan	Khmelnytskyi and Kamianets-Podilsky	July 21, 1996	Filaret (Denysenko)	Ruling
10	Makariy	metropolitan	Lviv	November 3, 1996	Dymytriy (Yarema)	Ruling
11	Iosaph	metropolitan	Ivano-Frankivsk and Galicia	April 6, 1997	Filaret (Denysenko)	Ruling
12	Dmytriy	metropolitan	Lviv and Sokal	July 16, 2000	Filaret (Denysenko)	Ruling
13	Klyment	metropolitan	Simferopol and Crimea	July 23, 2000	Filaret (Denysenko)	Ruling
14	Mykhail	metropolitan	Lutsk and Volhynia	October 22, 2000	Filaret (Denysenko)	Ruling
15	Ioan	metropolitan	Cherkasy and Chyhyryn	March 30, 2003	Filaret (Denysenko)	Ruling
16	Oleksandr	metropolitan	Pereyaslav and Vyshneve	December 19, 2007	Volodymyr (Romaniuk)	Ruling
17	Yakiv	archiepiscope	Drohobych and Sambir	November 8, 1998	Dymytriy (Yarema)	Ruling
18	Serhiy	archiepiscope	Donetsk and Mariupol	December 14, 2002	Filaret (Denysenko)	Ruling
19	Mefodiy	archiepiscope	Sumy and Okhtyrka	June 6, 2004	Filaret (Denysenko)	Ruling
20	Onufriy	archiepiscope	Chernivtsi and Kitsman	October 30, 2005	Filaret (Denysenko)	Ruling
21	Mykhail	archiepiscope	Vinnytsia and Tulchyn	January 1, 2006	Filaret (Denysenko)	Ruling
22	Nestor	archiepiscope	Ternopil and Kremenets	March 5, 2006	Filaret (Denysenko)	Ruling
23	Fedir	archiepiscope	Poltava and Kremenchuk	October 20, 2006	Filaret (Denysenko)	Ruling
24	Ilarion	archiepiscope	Rivne and Ostroh	May 14, 2008	Filaret (Denysenko)	Ruling
25	Yevstratiy	archiepiscope	Chernihiv and Nizhyn	May 25, 2008	Filaret (Denysenko)	Ruling
26	Volodymyr Shlapak	archiepiscope	Zhytomyr and Polissia	June 21, 2009	Mefodiy	Ruling
27	Afanasiy	archiepiscope	Kharkiv and Izium	November 15, 2009	Mefodiy	Ruling
28	Herman	archiepiscope	Chernivtsi and Khotyn	November 16, 2009	Mefodiy	Ruling
29	Symeon	archiepiscope	Dnipro and Kryvyi Rih	November 21, 2009	Filaret	Ruling
30	Tykhon	archiepiscope	Ternopil and Buchach	November 22, 2009	Filaret	Ruling
31	Kyrylo	episcope	Uzhhorod and Khust	August 3, 2003	Filaret	Ruling
32	Matfei	episcope	Volodymyr-Volynskyi and Turiysk	December 17, 2006	Filaret	Ruling
33	Mark	episcope	Kropyvnytskyi and Holovanivka	February 1, 2009	Filaret	Ruling
34	Pavlo	episcope	Ternopil and Terebovlia	March 29, 2009	Filaret	Ruling
35	Afanasiy	episcope	Luhansk and Starobilsk	August 21, 2011	Filaret	Ruling
36	Yulian	episcope	Kolomyia and Kosiv	February 19, 2012	Filaret	Ruling
37	Mytrofan	episcope	Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv	August 25, 2013	Filaret	Ruling
38	Fotiy	episcope	Zaporizhia and Melitopol	December 17, 2014	Filaret	Ruling
39	Varsonofiy	episcope	Uzhhorod and Zakarpattia	January 25, 2015	Filaret	Ruling
40	Viktor	episcope	Mukachevo and Carpathian	August 14, 2015	Makariy	Ruling
41	Borys	episcope	Kherson and Kakhovka	August 23, 2015	Makariy	Ruling
42	Paisiy	episcope	Zhytomyr and Ovruch	January 29, 2017	Filaret	Ruling
43	Savva	episcope	Donetsk and Sloviansk	May 14, 2017	Makariy	Ruling
44	Pavlo	episcope	Odesa and Balta	January 28, 2018	Filaret	Ruling
45	Havryil	episcope	Rivne and Sarny	September 2, 2018	Makariy	Ruling
46	Nykodym	episcope	Kherson and Taurida	December 4, 2019	Epifaniy	Ruling

Vicariate episcopes

No.	Hierarchs (Archiereus)			Ordination		Status
	Name	Rank	Title	Date	Lead
47	Oleksandr	archiepiscope	Bohuslav, vicar of Kyiv eparchy	January 16, 1994	Volodymyr[1]	vicar
48	Iziaslav	archiepiscope	Makariv, vicar of Kyiv eparchy	September 11, 1994	Volodymyr[3][1]	vicar
49	Ahapit	archiepiscope	Vyshhorod, vicar of Kyiv eparchy	August 8, 2010	Filaret	vicar[p 4]
50	Vsevolod	episcope	Sloviansk, vicar of Donetsk eparchy	March 28, 2003	Filaret	vicar
51	Lavrentiy	episcope	Vasylkiv, vicar of Kyiv eparchy	December 13, 2004	Mefodiy	vicar
52	Ioan	episcope	Bilhorod, vicar of Kyiv eparchy	October 29, 2010	Mefodiy	vicar
53	Volodymyr	episcope	Fastiv, vicar of Kyiv eparchy	November 16, 2010	Mefodiy	vicar
54	Pavlo	episcope	Kolomyia, vicar of Ivano-Frankivsk eparchy	February 15, 2018	Makariy	vicar
55	Epifaniy	episcope	Olbia, vicar of Kyiv eparchy	May 26, 2019	Epiphanius I of Ukraine	vicar

Titular episcopes

No.	Hierarchs (Archiereus)			Ordination		Status
	Name	Rank	Title	Date	Lead
56	Mark	episcope	Dunaievetskyi	December 17, 2009	Filaret	titular
57	Adrian	episcope	Shepetivka	February 16, 2011	Mefodiy	titular
58	Herontiy	episcope	Boyarka	September 14, 2014	Mefodiy	titular

Retired episcopes

No.	Hierarchs (Archiereus)			Ordination		Status
	Name	Rank	Title	Date	Lead
59	Filaret	metropolitan	former of Kyiv, honorary patriarch	February 4, 1962	Pymen	retired
60	Damian	archiepiscope	former Kherson and Taurida	October 19, 1997	Filaret	retired

Former episcopes

Excluded episcopes

• Antoniy (Masendych), metropolitan of Pereyaslav and Sicheslav (ordained on 16 September 1990, excluded on 17 October 1992)
• Ioan (Bodnarchuk), metropolitan of Lviv and Galicia (ordained on 23 October 1977, excluded on 29 April 1992, returned on 23 January 1993)
• Petro (Petrus), metropolitan of Lviv (ordained on 7 April 1992, excluded in 1996, returned 30 October 1997, excluded 15 December 1997)
• Mstyslav (Huk), archiepiscope of Khmelnytskyi and Kamianets-Podilskyi (ordained on 29 December 2010, excluded on 8 June 2017)
• Ioan (Modzalevskyi), archiepiscope of Uman, vicar of Kyiv eparchy (ordained on 17 June 1996, excluded on 24 January 2015)
• Ioasaf (Shybayev), metropolitan of Bilhorod and Oboyan (ordained on 19 February 1995, excluded on 24 June 2019)
• Petro (Moskalyov), episcope of Valuiky (ordained on 13 December 2008, excluded on 24 June 2019)
• Filaret (Panku), episcope of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi (ordained on 31 July 2005, excluded on 9 July 2020)

Episcopes that left

• Mykolai (Hrokh), episcope of Lutsk and Volhynia (ordained on 19 May 1990, left on 25 June 1992)
• Antoniy (Masendych), metropolitan (ordained on 16 September 1990, left in December 1993)
• Antoniy (Fialko), episcope of Khmelnytskyi and Kamianets-Podilskyi (ordained on 23 June 1991, left on 25 June 1992)
• Panteleimon (Romanovskyi), episcope of Dnipropetrovsk (ordained on 21 July 1991, left on 25 June 1992)
• Sofroniy (Vlasov), episcope of Vinnytsia and Bratslav (ordained on 18 April 1992, left in 1992)[4]
• Roman (Popenko), episcope of Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv (ordained on 6 June 1992, left 25 December 1993)[5]
• Mykhail (Dutkevych), former episcope of Bila Tserkva and Uman (ordained on 14 June 1992, left in November 2001)
• Feoktyst (Peresada), former archiepiscope of Lutsk and Volhynia (ordained 30 June 1993, left in 2001)
• Ihor (Isichenko), archiepiscope of Kharkiv and Poltava (ordained on 12 July 1993, left 29 March 2006)

Passed away episcopes

• Mstyslav (Skrypnyk), Patriarch of Kyiv and all Ukraine (ordained on 14 May 1942, died 11 June 1993)
• Ioan (Bodnarchuk), metropolitan of Lutsk and Volhynia (ordained on 23 October 1977, died 9 November 1994)
• Vasyliy (Bondarchuk), metropolitan of Ternopil and Buchach (ordained on 31 March 1990, died 21 January 2006)
• Andriy (Horak), metropolitan of Lviv and Sokal (ordained 18 April 1990, died 5 July 2010)
• Volodymyr (Romaniuk), Patriarch of Kyiv and all Ukraine (ordained on 29 April 1990, died 14 July 1995)
• Yakiv (Panchuk), metropolitan of Lutsk and Volhynia (ordained on 31 March 1990, died 16 March 2004)
• Avhustyn (Kravchenko), former episcope of Yahotyn, vicar of Kyiv eparchy (ordained in 1992, retired on 14 June 1993, died 1993)
• Serafym (Verzun), former episcope of Kirovohrad and Holovanivka (ordained on 25 September 1992, retired in November 2008, died 7 April 2012)
• Polikarp (Huts), episcope of Donetsk and Luhansk (1993 – 1993)
• Oleksiy (Tsaruk), former episcope of Mykolaiv and Kherson (ordained in 1993, retired in December 1993, died 1994)
• Dymytriy (Yarema), Patriarch of Kyiv and all Ukraine (ordained on 5 September 1993, died 25 February 2000)
• Danyil (Chokaliuk), metropolitan of Rivne and Ostroh (ordained on 23 January 1994, died 10 December 2005)
• Feodosiy (Petsyna), archiepiscope of Drohobych and Sambir (ordained on 4 December 1994, died 23 July 2010)
• Iov (Pavlyshyn), former archiepiscope of Ternopil and Kremenets (ordained on 11 May 1995, retired in 2015, died 8 February 2019)
• Tymofiy (Kutalyanos), metropolitan of Korsun, exarch of Kyiv Patriarchate in Greece (1995 – 2004)
• Methodius (Kudriakov), metropolitan of Kyiv and all Ukraine (ordained on 17 June 1995, died 24 February 2015)
• Hryhoriy (Kachan), archiepiscope of Zaporizhia and Melitopol (ordained on 10 October 1995, retired on 13 December 2014, died 22 November 2016)
• Petro (Brook de Trall), archiepiscope of Caffa and Gothia (ordained on 6 June 1996, died 9 June 2011)
• Ioan (Boichuk), former episcope of Kolomyia and Kosiv (ordained on 7 July 1996, retired on 8 March 2013, died 2 November 2020)
• Pankratiy (Tarnavskyi), former episcope of Vasylkiv, vicar of Kyiv eparchy (ordained on 27 July 1997, retired on 20 October 2006, died 27 August 2009)
• Nykon (Kalember), episcope of Chernihiv and Nizhyn (ordained on 12 October 1997, died 18 September 2002)
• Flavian (Pasichnyk), former episcope of Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv (ordained on 5 November 2000, retired on 16 July 2004, died 24 December 2010)
• Stepan (Biliak), episcope of Boryspil, vicar of Kyiv eparchy (ordained on 19 May 2002, died 10 November 2006)
• Yevseviy (Politylo), former metropolitan of Rivne and Ostroh (ordained on 7 July 2002, retired on 23 January 2012, died 24 October 2012)
• Feodosiy (Paikush), episcope of Vasylkiv, vicar of Kyiv eparchy (ordained on 28 July 2004, died 31 December 2012)
• Khrysostom (Bakomitros), episcope of Khersones, exarch of Kyiv Patriarchate in Greece (ordained on 14 May 2005, died 4 November 2016)
• Ilarion (Savchuk), episcope of Cherkasy and Kirovohrad (ordained on 3 November 2005, died 26 September 2015)

No data

• Polikarp (Pakholiuk), episcope of Chernihiv (ordained on 30 June 1991)[6]

Notes

1. Consecrated again on 16 December 1992 by Antoni and Sophron.[1]
2. Consecrated again on 16 September 1992 by Filaret.[2]
3. Eparchies outside of Ukraine must be liquidated or transferred under jurisdiction of Constantinople.
4. equated to ruling

References

1. Лозовий, Марко. ""Ієрархія" ряджених". Україна православна. Archived from the original on 2019-07-02. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
2. Щодо ролі патріарха Філарета в архієрейських хіротоніях. Archived 13 January 2019 at the Wayback Machine.
3. Архієрей. Archived 1 July 2019 at the Wayback Machine
4. Щодо ролі патріарха Філарета в архієрейських хіротоніях
5. Харьковская и Богодуховская епархия Украинской Православной Церкви Киевского Патриархата
6. Chernihiv eparchy

External links

• Session journal of the Holy Synod. Orthodox Church of Ukraine. 5 February 2019 (in Ukrainian)