Nifon Rusailă

Life

Born

1789/1797

Ordained priest

1826

Consecrated bishop

24 October 1842

Made metropolitan

14 September 1850

Made archbishop

11 January 1865

Died

5 May 1875

Sees

1. 24 October 1842 – 14 September 1850

   Bishop of Sebastea

   Vicar of Hungro-Wallachia · Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 1848 – 1850

   Locum tenens of Râmnic

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

3. 1849 – 14 September 1850

   Locum tenens of Hungro-Wallachia

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

4. 14 September 1850 – 11 January 1865

   Metropolitan of Hungro-Wallachia

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

5. 11 January 1865 – 5 May 1875

   Archbishop of Bucharest, Metropolitan of Hungro-Wallachia and Primate of All Romania

   Patriarchate of Romania

Consecration

Consecrated 24 October 1842. His consecrators are not yet in the data.

Bishops he consecrated 6

• 12 May 1849Gregory Goudocheiras Bishop of Agathonica, 1809–1877
• March 1856Athanasios Delagrammatikas Metropolitan of Libya, 1820–1870
• 14 October 1856Akakios Metropolitan of Hierapolis, d. 1860
• 20 October 1856Theodoret Bishop of Synada and Craiova, d. 1883
• 18 December 1865Ieronim Bishop of Sebaste and Ploiești, 1825–1875
• 11 November 1873Polycarp Popescu Bishop of Bârlad, 1831–1876