Serafym (Verzun)

Tags: Christian Bishop.

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).

active years end year

2008-01-01T00:00:00+02:00

active years start year

2002-01-01T00:00:00+02:00

birth date

1949-10-08

birth place

Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Kiev

death date

2012-04-07

death place

Ukraine, Bohuslav Raion