Gabriel Dinev

Life

Born

16 July 1950

Monastic tonsure

27 December 1979

Ordained deacon

1980

Ordained priest

1980

Made archimandrite

24 May 1986

Consecrated bishop

19 October 1998

Made metropolitan

28 January 2001

Sees

1. 19 October 1998 – 28 January 2001

   Bishop of Makariopol

   Vicar of Sofia · Alternative Synod (Bulgaria)

2. 28 January 2001 – present

   Metropolitan of Lovech

   Patriarchate of Bulgaria

Consecration

Consecrated 19 October 1998. His consecrators are not yet in the data.

Bishops he consecrated 13

• 6 July 2003Tikhon Ivanov Bishop of Tiberiopolis (Strumica), b. 1945
• 17 March 2007Naum Dimitrov Metropolitan of Ruse (Cherven), b. 1968
• 18 March 2007John Ivanov Metropolitan of Varna and Veliki Preslav, b. 1969
• 20 January 2008Daniel Nikolov Metropolitan of Vidin, b. 1972
• 6 April 2008Ignat Karagyozov Bishop of Provat, b. 1972
• 29 October 2010Gregory Tsvetkov Metropolitan of Vratsa, b. 1970
• 30 November 2010John Stoikov Bishop of Glavinica, 1949–2019
• 18 December 2011Serapheim Dinkov Metropolitan of Nevrokop, b. 1974
• 18 December 2016Gerasim Georgiev Bishop of Melnik, b. 1979
• 20 December 2016Iakov Donchev Bishop of Constantia, b. 1971
• 21 February 2021Visarion Grivov Bishop of Smolyan, b. 1971
• 26 September 2021Mikhail Dilovski Bishop of Constantia, b. 1981
• 26 June 2022Makarii Chakarov Bishop of Glavinica, b. 1981

Sources

Also in: Wikidata