Joasaph Leliukhin

Ioasaph
ChurchRussian Orthodox Church
MetropolisMetropolitan of Kiev, Galicia, Exarch of Ukraine
SeeKiev
Installed30 March 1964
Term ended24 April 1966
PredecessorJohn Sokolov
SuccessorFilaret (Denysenko)
Other postsBishop of Luhansk (temporarily)
Bishop of Khmelnytskyi (temporarily)
Bishop of Vinnytsia and Bar
Bishop of Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhia
Bishop of Sumy and Okhtyrka
Orders
Ordination16 August 1942
by Dymitr (Magan)
Consecration17 August 1958
by unknown
Personal details
BornVitaliy Mikhailovich Leliukhin
(1903-04-28)28 April 1903
Died24 April 1966(1966-04-24) (aged 62)

Joasaph Leliukhin (born Vitaliy M. Lelyukhin, Russian: Вита́лий Миха́йлович Лелю́хин, 28 April 1903 – 24 April 1966) was the Metropolitan of Kiev and the Exarch of Ukraine in the Patriarchate of Moscow.

Early life

Leliukhin was born in the village of Dubosyshche, which was then part of the Smolensk Province in the Russian Empire.[1] After graduating from the Vyazma Theological School and then the Smolensk Theological Seminary, he began teaching before returning to complete his higher education at the Kharkiv branch of the Moscow Institute of Communications.[1]

In 1942, he was ordained as a deacon and then a priest during the feast of the Dormition of the Mother of God.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Іродов, О. О. (12 December 2011). "Іоасаф". Енциклопедія Сучасної України (in Ukrainian). Інститут енциклопедичних досліджень НАН України. Retrieved 19 March 2026.
  2. ↑ "Митрополит Иоасаф (Лелюхин) 1964-1966". mitropolit.kiev.ua (in Russian). Archived from the original on 13 January 2014. Retrieved 19 March 2026.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)