Ambrose Munteanu

Life

Born

25 October 1973

Monastic tonsure

8 April 1993

Ordained deacon

2 May 1994

Ordained priest

28 November 1996

Made hegumen

28 November 1997

Made archimandrite

16 April 2000

Elected bishop

27 December 2011

Consecrated bishop

4 March 2012

Sees

1. 4 March 2012 – 4 October 2012

   Bishop of Neftekamsk and Belebei

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 4 October 2012 – 29 July 2017

   Bishop of Neftekamsk and Birsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 29 July 2017 – 30 May 2019

   Bishop of Neftekamsk and Oktyabrsk

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 30 May 2019 – present

   Bishop of Bogorodsk

   Vicar of the Patriarchal Exarch of Western Europe · Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 4 March 2012 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Vincent Morar Metropolitan of Tashkent and Uzbekistan, b. 1953
• Varsonofii Sudakov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, b. 1955
• Hilarion Alfeyev Metropolitan of Budapest and Hungary, b. 1966
• Nikon Vasyukov Metropolitan of Ufa and Bashkiria, b. 1950
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Eugene Reshetnikov Archbishop of Vereya, b. 1957
• Feognost Guzikov Metropolitan of Kashira, b. 1960
• Nikon Mironov Bishop of Kudymkar and Vereshchagino, b. 1960
• Tikhon Nedosekin Bishop of Vidnoye, b. 1956
• Feofilakt Moiseyev Former Bishop of Mytishchi, 1949–2023
• Stephen Neshcheret Archbishop of Homieĺ and Zhlobin, b. 1966
• Ignatii Punin Bishop of Minusinsk and Kuraginsk, b. 1973
• Peter Musteață Archbishop of Ungheni and Nisporeni, b. 1967
• Roman Gavrilov Bishop of Serpukhov, b. 1957
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• Tikhon Zaitsev Archbishop of Ruza, b. 1967
• Nikodim Vulpe Archbishop of Edineţ and Briceni, b. 1956
• Savva Mikheyev Metropolitan of Vologda and Kirillov, b. 1980
• Nicholas Subbotin Bishop of Salavat and Kumertau, b. 1973
• Irinei Tafunya Bishop of Orsk and Gai, b. 1971
• Nicholas Pogrebnyak Bishop of Balashikha and Orekhovo-Zuevo, b. 1950
• Nephon Saykali Metropolitan of Philippopolis (Chehba), cons. 1988
• Anthony Pantelić Bishop of Moravica, b. 1970

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 11 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Ambrose Munteanu Bishop of Bogorodsk consecrated 4 March 2012
2. Tikhon Nedosekin Bishop of Vidnoye, b. 1956 consecrated 10 August 1999
3. Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003 consecrated 23 May 1963
4. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
5. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
6. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
7. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
8. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
9. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
10. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
11. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
12. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 4

• 8 March 2015John Moșneguțu Archbishop of Soroca and Drochia, b. 1979
• 21 August 2017Iliya Kazantsev Bishop of Birsk and Beloretsk, 1970–2018
• 20 November 2017Ignatii Suranov Bishop of Cherepovets and Belozersk, b. 1978
• 2 December 2018Spyridon Morozov Bishop of Birsk and Beloretsk, b. 1987

Sources

Also in: Wikidata