Benedict Vesa

Life

Born

13 February 1984

Monastic tonsure

17 January 2015

Ordained deacon

24 January 2015

Ordained priest

30 January 2015

Made archimandrite

25 December 2017

Consecrated bishop

23 February 2020

Sees

1. 23 February 2020 – present

   Bishop of Bistriţa

   Vicar of Vad · Patriarchate of Romania

Consecration

Consecrated 23 February 2020 by:

• Andrew Andreicuț Metropolitan of Cluj, b. 1949
• Irineu Pop Archbishop of Alba Iulia, b. 1953
• Justin Hodea Bishop of Maramureș and Sătmar, b. 1961
• Visarion Bălţat Bishop of Tulcea, b. 1959
• Petroniu Florea Bishop of Sălaj, b. 1965
• Gurie Georgiu Bishop of Deva and Hunedoara, 1968–2021
• Macarie Drăgoi Bishop of Northern Europe, b. 1977
• Timothy Bel Bishop of Sătmar, b. 1974
• Teofil Roman Bishop of Iberia, b. 1971

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 13 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Benedict Vesa Bishop of Bistriţa consecrated 23 February 2020
2. Timothy Bel Bishop of Sătmar, b. 1974 consecrated 24 June 2018
3. Sofronie Drincec Bishop of Oradea, Bihor and Sălaj, b. 1967 consecrated 1999
4. Peter Păduraru Metropolitan of Bessarabia, b. 1946 consecrated 1 September 1990
5. Vladimir Kotlyarov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1929–2022 consecrated 30 December 1962
6. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
7. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
8. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
9. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
10. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
11. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
12. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
13. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
14. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 2

• 26 June 2022Makarii Chakarov Bishop of Glavinica, b. 1981
• Gherontie Ciupe Bishop of Hunedoara, b. 1966