Serafym (Verzun) | |
Enthroned: | 2002 |
Ended: | 2008 |
Church: | Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyivan Patriarchate |
Successor: | Ivan Yaremenko (adm.) |
Birth Name: | Serhiy Dmytrovych Verzun |
Birth Date: | 8 October 1949 |
Birth Place: | Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR |
Death Place: | Bohuslav Raion, Ukraine |
Ordination: | 10 December 1978 |
Consecration: | 25 September 1992 |
Consecrated By: | Metropolitan Filaret (Denysenko) |
Serafym (secular name Serhiy Dmytrovych Verzun, Ukrainian: Сергій Дмитрович Верзун; October 8, 1949 - April 7, 2012) was the Ukrainian Orthodox archbishop of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyivan Patriarchate.[1]
He was born in 1949, studied at the Odessa Theological Seminary of the Russian Orthodox Church.
June 25, 1992 he joined to the Kyiv Patriarchate.
He was consecrated as Bishop of Vyshhorod, auxiliary of the Eparchy of Kyiv, by Filaret (Denysenko), Antoniy (Masendych), Andriy (Horak), Volodymyr (Romaniuk).