Bishop Ieronim (in the world Igor Anatolievich Chernyshov) was born on July 12, 1966, in Voronezh.

In 1985, he graduated from Faculty of History, Voronezh Pedagogical University. After serving in the army in 1987, entered as a novice into the reborn Danilov Monastery. In 1988-1989, he studied at the Moscow Theological Seminary. In 1990, he took monastic tonsure, and in the same year, his diaconal ordination took place, and then his priestly ordination. In 1994, by an Ukaz of His Holiness the Patriarch, Father Ieronim was appointed the rector of restored Church of St. Gregory of Neocaesarea in the Bolshaya Polyanka in Moscow. During his rectorship, he was awarded the pectoral cross, epigonation and was elevated to the rank of hegumen by His Holiness the Patriarch.

In 2003, he was elevated to the rank of archimandrite His Holiness the Patriarch. In 2006, he graduated from the Moscow Theological Academy. On July 12, 2006, he was awarded by His Holiness the Patriarch the Order of St. Prince Daniil of Moscow, III Degree.

By a resolution of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church dated April 15, 2008 (journal no. 7), Archimandrite Ieronim (Chernyshov) was elected as the Bishp of Orlov and Livensk.

Translated from the Russian by Daryle R. Lamoureux