Visarion Grivov

Life

Born

6 July 1971

Monastic tonsure

4 November 2002

Ordained deacon

25 November 2002

Ordained priest

27 November 2002

Made archimandrite

26 July 2007

Consecrated bishop

21 February 2021

Sees

1. 21 February 2021 – present

   Bishop of Smolyan

   Vicar of Philippopolis · Patriarchate of Bulgaria

Consecration

Consecrated 21 February 2021 by:

• Nicholas Sevastiyanov Metropolitan of Plovdiv, b. 1969
• Gabriel Dinev Metropolitan of Lovech, b. 1950
• John Ivanov Metropolitan of Varna and Veliki Preslav, b. 1969
• Anthony Mikhalev Metropolitan of Western and Central Europe, b. 1978
• Cyprian Kazandzhiev Bishop of Troyan, b. 1976
• Daniel Nikolov Metropolitan of Vidin, b. 1972
• Iakov Donchev Bishop of Constantia, b. 1971
• Gerasim Georgiev Bishop of Melnik, b. 1979
• Sionii Radev Bishop of Velika, b. 1969
• Polycarp Petrov Bishop of Belogradchik, b. 1978
• Arsenii Lazarov Bishop of Znepole, b. 1986

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 13 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Visarion Grivov Bishop of Smolyan consecrated 21 February 2021
2. Polycarp Petrov Bishop of Belogradchik, b. 1978 consecrated 27 July 2014
3. Savva Mikheyev Metropolitan of Vologda and Kirillov, b. 1980 consecrated 11 July 2011
4. Manuel Pavlov Metropolitan of Petrozavodsk and Karelia, 1950–2015 consecrated 14 August 1990
5. John Snychyov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Ladoga, 1927–1995 consecrated 12 December 1965
6. Manuel Lemeshevskii Metropolitan of Kuibyshev and Syzran, 1884–1968 consecrated 23 September 1923
7. Tikhon Belavin Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1865–1925 consecrated 19 October 1897
8. Palladii Rayev-Pisarev Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1827–1898 consecrated 18 December 1866
9. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
10. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
11. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
12. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
13. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
14. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 2

• 26 June 2022Makarii Chakarov Bishop of Glavinica, b. 1981
• 10 June 2023Isaac Boyadzhiiski Bishop of Velbudzh, b. 1982

Sources

• bg.wikipedia.org

Also in: Wikidata