Serafym Verzun Explained

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).

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Notes and References

  1. http://risu.org.ua/ua/index/all_news/orthodox/uoc_kp/47680/ Obituary at RISU