Vladimir Cantarean

Life

Born

18 August 1952

Ordained deacon

22 May 1974

Ordained priest

22 May 1976

Monastic tonsure

29 November 1987

Made archimandrite

1988

Consecrated bishop

21 July 1989

Made archbishop

4 April 1990

Made metropolitan

21 December 1992

Sees

1. 21 July 1989 – 4 April 1990

   Bishop of Chișinău and Moldova

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 4 April 1990 – 21 December 1992

   Archbishop of Chișinău and Moldova

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 21 December 1992 – present

   Metropolitan of Chișinău and Moldova

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 21 July 1989 by:

• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014
• Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003
• Gedeon Dokukin Metropolitan of Stavropol and Vladikavkaz, 1929–2003
• Serapion Fadeyev Metropolitan of Tula and Belyov, 1933–1999
• Leontii Bondar Metropolitan of Orenburg and Buzuluk, 1913–1999
• Maksim Krokha Archbishop of Mahilioŭ and Mstsislaw, 1928–2002
• Barnabas Kedrov Metropolitan of Cheboksary and Chuvash, 1931–2020
• Clement Kapalin Metropolitan of Kaluga and Borovsk, b. 1949
• Ilian Vostryakov Bishop of Serpukhov, b. 1945
• Anthony Moskalenko Archbishop of the Urals and Atyrau, 1940–2025
• Leo Tserpitskii Metropolitan of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, b. 1946
• Paisii Samchuk Archbishop of Oryol and Livny, 1930–2008
• Mark Petrovtsy Metropolitan of Khust and Vynohradiv, b. 1951
• Victor Oleinik Metropolitan of Tver and Kashin, b. 1940
• Anthony Cheremisov Archbishop of Oryol and Bolkhov, 1939–2026
• Sergii Poletkin Metropolitan of Samara and Tolyattinsk, b. 1951

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 10 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Vladimir Cantarean Metropolitan of Chișinău and Moldova consecrated 21 July 1989
2. Leontii Bondar Metropolitan of Orenburg and Buzuluk, 1913–1999 consecrated 10 August 1956
3. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
4. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
5. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
6. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
7. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
8. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
9. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
10. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
11. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 18

• 23 July 1989Alexander Kudrjašovs Metropolitan of Riga and All Latvia, b. 1939
• 1 September 1990Peter Păduraru Metropolitan of Bessarabia, b. 1946
• 2 September 1990Vincent Morar Metropolitan of Tashkent and Uzbekistan, b. 1953
• 12 September 1998Anatolii Botnari Archbishop of Cahul and Comrat, b. 1950
• 8 November 1998Dorimedont Cecan Bishop of Edineţ and Briceni, 1961–2006
• 2 September 2001Alexander Agrikov Metropolitan of Bryansk and Sevsk, b. 1953
• 13 November 2005Peter Musteață Archbishop of Ungheni and Nisporeni, b. 1967
• 11 March 2007Marcel Mihăescu Archbishop of Bălţi and Făleşti, b. 1959
• 28 May 2009Nazarii Lavrinenko Bishop of Kuznetsk and Nikolsk, b. 1952
• 21 August 2010Panteleimon Shatov Bishop of Vereya, b. 1950
• 22 August 2010Benjamin Likhomanov Bishop of Rybinsk and Romanov-Borisoglebsk, b. 1952
• 26 December 2010Nikodim Vulpe Archbishop of Edineţ and Briceni, b. 1956
• 22 November 2011Irinei Tafunya Bishop of Orsk and Gai, b. 1971
• 28 December 2014Tikhon Chizhevskii Bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk and Kolomyya, 1947–2018
• 8 March 2015John Moșneguțu Archbishop of Soroca and Drochia, b. 1979
• 4 November 2016Silouan Şalari Bishop of Orhei, b. 1977
• 17 June 2018Spyridon Golovastov Archbishop of Dobropole, b. 1975
• 21 April 2024Patrokl Porombak Bishop of Dondușeni, b. 1976

Sources

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