In the world - Mykhailo Vasylyovych Lugovyi
Born 11.05.1967
Name day - August, 9
Consecration
date- 19.10.2007
Chairs cathedra
since 19.10.2007
Bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk
and Kolomiya Panteleimon (Mykhailo
Vasylyovych Lugovyi) was born on May 11, 1967 in the village of Kopanky,
Kalush district of the Ivano-Frankivsk region in the family of workers.
In 1984 he graduated from the secondary school No.3 of
Kalush and entered the pedagogical department of the Ivano-Frankivsk State Pedagogical Institute named after Vasyl
Stefanic.
In 1985 he was called to the military service,
and quitted it in the spring of 1987, and proceeded his studies in the Institute. In 1989 - 1990, being the graduate student, he bore obedience
in the Holy Transfiguration Monastery of Gosha of the Ivano-Frankivsk
Diocese.
In 1990 he graduated from the Institute and enrolled in the Kyiv Theological
Seminary, and in 1993 - entered the Kyiv Theological
Academy. In 1996 he defended his thesis "Church
Brotherhoods of Ukraine and Byelorussia as Stronghold of Orthodoxy", receiving the degree of Candidate of
Theology.
From 1996 he was appointed teacher and senior assistant
of the inspector of KTA&S.
On September 21, 1996 he
was ordained deacon by Archbishop of Kryvyi Rih and Nikopol Efrem (Kytsai), and
on October, 9 - ordained to the holy
priesthood by His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr.
March 20, 1997 he was
tonsured a monk with the name Panteleimon (after the Holy Great Martyr and
Healer Panteleimon) by Vice-Rector of the KTA archimandrite (now archbishop of
Bila Tserkva and Boguslav) Mytrofan (Yurchuk).
On the feast of Easter in
1997 he was awarded with pectoral cross by His Beatitude, Metropolitan
Volodymyr, and on July 9, 1997 - elevated to the rank of Hegumen.
From August 1, 1997 to
August 29, 2004 he was the secretary of the Academic Council of the KTA.
On the feast of Easter in 1998 he was awarded with the ornamented cross, and in a year he was elevated
to the rank of archimandrite.
On May 29, 2000 he was
appointed associate professor of the department of General Church History of
the KTA. From May 2001till September of 2005 - head of the department of General Church History of KTA.
From September 2005 - clergyman
of the St.Panteleimon Convent in Theofania (Kyiv).
June 8, 2000 - awarded with the medal "Nativity of Christ",
of the first degree. November 9, 2001
in honour of the 300th anniversary of the KTA he was awarded with
the Order of the Venerable Nestor the Chronicler
From September 2005 - teacher
and associate professor of the department of Philosophy, Political Science and
Right of the Kyiv Slavistic University.
On October 18, 2007 by the
decision of the Holy Synod of the UOC archimandrite Panteleimon was elected
Bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk and Kolomiya. The same day his bishop nomination took
place in the Primate residence of His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr in the
Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. The following day, October 19, in the Refectory Church in
honour of the Holy Venerable Anthony and Theodosius of Caves the consecration
of Bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk and Kolomiya Panteleimon was held, presided over
by the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. | |
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