Michael Filimon

Life

Born

25 January 1964

Monastic tonsure

7 January 1986

Ordained deacon

18 April 1987

Ordained priest

11 September 1988

Made archimandrite

22 January 1995

Elected bishop

5 March 2008

Consecrated bishop

20 April 2008

Sees

1. 20 April 2008 – present

   Bishop of Australia and New Zealand

   Patriarchate of Romania

Consecration

Consecrated 20 April 2008 by:

• Nifon Mihăiţă Metropolitan of Târgoviște, b. 1944
• Teodosie Petrescu Archbishop of Tomis, b. 1955
• Calinic Argatu Archbishop of Argeș and Muscel, b. 1944
• Cassian Crăciun Archbishop of Dunării de Jos (Lower Danube), b. 1955
• Cyprian Spiridon Archbishop of Buzău, b. 1965
• Varsanufie Gogescu Archbishop of Râmnic, b. 1968
• Irineu Popa Metropolitan of Oltenia, b. 1957

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 5 generations back to Pimen Georgescu; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Michael Filimon Bishop consecrated 20 April 2008
2. Nifon Mihăiţă Metropolitan of Târgoviște, b. 1944 consecrated 1986
3. Justin Moisescu Patriarch of Romania, Archbishop of Bucharest, Metropolitan of Muntenia and Dobruja, 1910–1986 consecrated 15 March 1956
4. Nicholas Colan Archbishop of Sibiu and Metropolitan of Transylvania, 1893–1967 consecrated 31 May 1936
5. Nicodim Munteanu Patriarch of Romania, Archbishop of Bucharest, Metropolitan of Muntenia and Dobruja, 1864–1948 consecrated 24 May 1909
6. Pimen Georgescu Archbishop of Iași and Metropolitan of Moldova, 1853–1934 consecrated 2 February 1895

Bishops he consecrated 3

• 24 May 2014Anthony Telembici Bishop of Bălţi, b. 1963
• 29 May 2014Ieronim Crețu Bishop of Dacia Felix, b. 1959
• 30 October 2014Timothy Aioanei Bishop of Prahova, b. 1966

Sources

Also in: Wikidata