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]

Serafym (Verzun)
Archbishop of Kirovohrad and Holovanivsk
ChurchUkrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyivan Patriarchate
Installed2002
Term ended2008
SuccessorIvan Yaremenko (adm.)
Orders
Ordination10 December 1978
Consecration25 September 1992
by Metropolitan Filaret (Denysenko)
Personal details
Born
Serhiy Dmytrovych Verzun

(1949-10-08)October 8, 1949
DiedApril 7, 2012(2012-04-07) (aged 62)
Bohuslav Raion, Ukraine

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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