Vsevolod Yuryevich Lytkin (Russian: Всеволод Юрьевич Лыткин; born 17 January 1967, in Siberia), has since 2005 served as a bishop in the Siberian Evangelical Lutheran Church (SELC), and since 2007 has headed that denomination.
The following year, the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS), a conservative Lutheran denomination in the United States, began to actively support Lytkin's missionary efforts.[1]
In 1993 the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church (EELC) recognized Lytkin and his Novosibirsk Lutheran community as part of the EELC, a semi-independent missionary unit directly subordinate to the EELC's Archbishop Jaan Kiivit, Jr. and with its clergy receiving ordination from the Estonian church body.
In May 2003, however, the Siberian Evangelical Lutheran Church, founded and headed by Vsevolod Lytkin, became independent from the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church. In 2005, SELC elected Lytkin as its bishop. Being not yet ordained, however, he was known as bishop-elect until 2007, when his official ordination took place.[1]
Since 2012, he also serves as bishop to St. George, an independent Anglican congregation in Thailand.[2]
