Gregory Tsvetkov

Life

Born

19 September 1970

Monastic tonsure

17 November 1996

Ordained deacon

18 November 1996

Ordained priest

1997

Made archimandrite

21 December 1998

Consecrated bishop

29 October 2010

Made metropolitan

12 March 2017

Sees

1. 29 October 2010 – 2014

   Bishop of Braničevo

   Vicar of Sofia · Patriarchate of Bulgaria

2. 2014 – 12 March 2017

   Bishop of Braničevo

   Vicar of the Patriarch of Bulgaria · Patriarchate of Bulgaria

3. 12 March 2017 – present

   Metropolitan of Vratsa

   Patriarchate of Bulgaria

Consecration

Consecrated 29 October 2010 by:

• Yoanikii Nedelchev Metropolitan of Sliven, b. 1939
• Dometian Topuzliev Metropolitan of Vidin, 1932–2017
• Cyril Kovachev Metropolitan of Varna and Veliki Preslav, 1954–2013
• Gregory Stefanov Metropolitan of Veliko Turnovo, b. 1950
• Neofit Dimitrov Patriarch of Bulgaria, Metropolitan of Sofia, b. 1945
• Nathaniel Kalaidzhiev Metropolitan of Nevrokop, 1952–2013
• Gabriel Dinev Metropolitan of Lovech, b. 1950
• Ambrose Parashkevov Metropolitan of Dorostol, 1942–2020
• Constantine Petrov Bishop of Markianopol, 1941–2017
• Teodosii Kupichkov Bishop of Devol, 1934–2017
• Evlogii Stamboldzhiev Bishop of Adrianopolis, b. 1954
• Naum Dimitrov Metropolitan of Ruse (Cherven), b. 1968
• John Ivanov Metropolitan of Varna and Veliki Preslav, b. 1969
• Daniel Nikolov Metropolitan of Vidin, b. 1972
• Boris Dobrev Former Bishop of Agathonica, b. 1953

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 8 generations back to Anthimos IV Vamvakis; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Gregory Tsvetkov Metropolitan of Vratsa consecrated 29 October 2010
2. Constantine Petrov Bishop of Markianopol, 1941–2017 consecrated 27 August 1997
3. Pimen Enev Metropolitan of Nevrokop, 1906–1999 consecrated 21 December 1947
4. Stephen I Shokov Metropolitan of Sofia, 1878–1957 consecrated 1 April 1921
5. Basil Mikhailov Metropolitan of Dorostol and Cherven, 1847–1927 consecrated 18 July 1899
6. Constantine V Valiades Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1833–1914 consecrated 30 January 1876
7. Methodios Aronis Metropolitan of Mytilini, d. 1897 consecrated 12 November 1867
8. Panaret Mishaikov Metropolitan of Plovdiv, 1805–1883 consecrated March 1851
9. Anthimos IV Vamvakis Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1788–1878 consecrated October 1825

Bishops he consecrated 6

• 18 December 2011Serapheim Dinkov Metropolitan of Nevrokop, b. 1974
• 6 July 2014Arsenii Lazarov Bishop of Znepole, b. 1986
• 18 December 2016Gerasim Georgiev Bishop of Melnik, b. 1979
• 20 December 2016Iakov Donchev Bishop of Constantia, b. 1971
• 26 September 2021Mikhail Dilovski Bishop of Constantia, b. 1981
• 19 October 2021Pakhomii Lozanov Bishop of Braničevo, b. 1978

Sources

Also in: Wikidata