Nestor Dinculeană

Life

Born

11 June 1983

Monastic tonsure

2009

Ordained priest

2011

Made archimandrite

2014

Consecrated bishop

7 March 2021

Sees

1. 7 March 2021 – 15 December 2021

   Bishop of Hunedoara

   Vicar of Deva · Patriarchate of Romania

2. 15 December 2021 – present

   Bishop of Deva and Hunedoara

   Patriarchate of Romania

Consecration

Consecrated 7 March 2021 by:

• Laurence Streza Metropolitan of Transylvania, b. 1947
• Irineu Pop Archbishop of Alba Iulia, b. 1953
• Sofronie Drincec Bishop of Oradea, Bihor and Sălaj, b. 1967
• Nicodim Nicolăescu Bishop of Severin and Strehaia, b. 1962
• Vincent Grifoni Bishop of Slobozia and Călărași, b. 1954
• Andrew Moldovan Bishop of Covasna and Harghita, b. 1967
• Gurie Georgiu Bishop of Deva and Hunedoara, 1968–2021

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 12 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Nestor Dinculeană Bishop of Deva and Hunedoara consecrated 7 March 2021
2. Sofronie Drincec Bishop of Oradea, Bihor and Sălaj, b. 1967 consecrated 1999
3. Peter Păduraru Metropolitan of Bessarabia, b. 1946 consecrated 1 September 1990
4. Vladimir Kotlyarov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1929–2022 consecrated 30 December 1962
5. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
6. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
7. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
8. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
9. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
10. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
11. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
12. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
13. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 1

• Gherontie Ciupe Bishop of Hunedoara, b. 1966