Teofil Ionescu

Life

Born

14 October 1894

Monastic tonsure

1915

Ordained deacon

1915

Ordained priest

1921

Made archimandrite

1942

Consecrated bishop

26 December 1954

Made archbishop

13 December 1974

Died

9 May 1975

Sees

1. 26 December 1954 – 10 March 1972

   Bishop of Sèvres

   ROCOR

2. 10 March 1972 – 13 December 1974

   Bishop of Central and Western Europe

   Patriarchate of Romania

3. 13 December 1974 – 9 May 1975

   Archbishop of Central and Western Europe

   Patriarchate of Romania

Consecration

Consecrated 26 December 1954 by:

• Visarion Puiu Metropolitan of the Romanian Orthodox Church Abroad, 1879–1964
• John Maximovich Archbishop of San Francisco and Western America, 1896–1966
• Nathaniel Lvov Archbishop of Vienna and Austria, 1906–1986

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 9 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Teofil Ionescu Archbishop of Central and Western Europe consecrated 26 December 1954
2. John Maximovich Archbishop of San Francisco and Western America, 1896–1966 consecrated 1934
3. Anthony Khrapovitsky Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1863–1936 consecrated 7 September 1897
4. Arsenii Bryantsev Archbishop of Kharkiv and Okhtyrka, 1839–1914 consecrated 17 May 1882
5. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
6. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
7. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
8. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
9. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
10. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 3

• 22 December 1960Akakios Pappas Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1888–1963
• 11 November 1964John Kovalevskii Bishop of Saint-Denis, 1905–1970
• 11 November 1964John-Nectaire Kovalevsky Bishop of St. Denis, 1905–1970

Sources

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