Anthony Mikhalev

Life

Born

17 January 1978

Monastic tonsure

5 August 2002

Ordained deacon

20 October 2002

Ordained priest

17 January 2003

Made archimandrite

21 November 2006

Consecrated bishop

23 March 2008

Made metropolitan

27 October 2013

Sees

1. 23 March 2008 – 2010

   Bishop of Constantia

   Vicar of Plovdiv · Patriarchate of Bulgaria

2. 2010 – 27 October 2013

   Bishop of Constantia

   Vicar of Western and Central Europe · Patriarchate of Bulgaria

3. 27 October 2013 – present

   Metropolitan of Western and Central Europe

   Patriarchate of Bulgaria

4. 2016 – present

   Locum tenens of Stara Zagora

   Patriarchate of Bulgaria

Consecration

Consecrated 23 March 2008 by:

• Yoanikii Nedelchev Metropolitan of Sliven, b. 1939

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 1 generation back to Yoanikii Nedelchev; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Anthony Mikhalev Metropolitan of Western and Central Europe consecrated 23 March 2008
2. Yoanikii Nedelchev Metropolitan of Sliven, b. 1939 consecrated 20 April 1975

Bishops he consecrated 3

• 6 April 2008Ignat Karagyozov Bishop of Provat, b. 1972
• 21 February 2021Visarion Grivov Bishop of Smolyan, b. 1971
• 19 October 2021Pakhomii Lozanov Bishop of Braničevo, b. 1978

Sources

• wikidata.org

Also in: Wikidata