Installed 2002 Consecration September 25, 1992 Ordination December 10, 1978 Name Serhiy Verzun | Role Verzun Successor Ivan Yaremenko (adm.) Term ended 2008 | |
Church Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyivan Patriarchate Birth name Serhiy Dmytrovych Verzun Born October 8, 1949
Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR ( 1949-10-08 ) Died April 7, 2012, Bohuslav Raion, Ukraine | ||
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.
He was born in 1949, studied at the Odessa Theological Seminary of the Russian Orthodox Church.
June 25, 1992 he joined to the Kiev Patriarchate, which is not recognized by other Orthodox Churches.
He was consecrated as Bishop of Vyshhorod, auxiliary of the Eparchy of Kiev, by Filaret (Denysenko), Antoniy (Masendych), Andriy (Horak), Volodymyr (Romaniuk).
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