Teoctist Arăpaşu

Life

Born

7 February 1915

Monastic tonsure

1935

Ordained deacon

4 January 1937

Ordained priest

25 March 1945

Made archimandrite

1946

Consecrated bishop

5 March 1950

Made metropolitan

1973

Became patriarch

9 November 1986

Died

30 July 2007

Sees

1. 5 March 1950 – 1962

   Bishop of Botoșani

   Vicar of the Patriarch of Romania · Patriarchate of Romania

2. 1962 – 28 January 1973

   Bishop of Arad

   Patriarchate of Romania

3. 1969 – 1970

   Locum tenens of Oradea

   Patriarchate of Romania

4. 28 January 1973 – 25 September 1977

   Archbishop of Craiova and Metropolitan of Oltenia

   Patriarchate of Romania

5. 25 September 1977 – 9 November 1986

   Archbishop of Suceava and Moldova

   Patriarchate of Romania

6. 9 November 1986 – 30 July 2007

   Patriarch of Romania, Archbishop of Bucharest, Metropolitan of Muntenia and Dobruja

   Patriarchate of Romania

Consecration

Consecrated 5 March 1950 by:

• Justinian Marina Patriarch of Romania, Archbishop of Bucharest, Metropolitan of Muntenia and Dobruja, 1901–1977

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 4 generations back to Pimen Georgescu; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Teoctist Arăpaşu Patriarch of Romania, Archbishop of Bucharest, Metropolitan of Muntenia and Dobruja consecrated 5 March 1950
2. Justinian Marina Patriarch of Romania, Archbishop of Bucharest, Metropolitan of Muntenia and Dobruja, 1901–1977 consecrated 12 August 1945
3. Valerian Moglan Bishop of Botoșani, 1878–1949 consecrated 25 March 1938
4. Nicodim Munteanu Patriarch of Romania, Archbishop of Bucharest, Metropolitan of Muntenia and Dobruja, 1864–1948 consecrated 24 May 1909
5. Pimen Georgescu Archbishop of Iași and Metropolitan of Moldova, 1853–1934 consecrated 2 February 1895

Bishops he consecrated 14

• 20 January 1980Basil Costin Archbishop of Târgoviște, 1938–1999
• 24 November 1985Ioachim Mareş Bishop of Huși, 1927–2009
• 1991Teofan Savu Metropolitan of Moldova and Bukovina, b. 1959
• 7 February 1993Bartholomew Anania Metropolitan of Cluj, Alba, Crișana and Maramureș, 1921–2011
• 2 February 1994Vincent Grifoni Bishop of Slobozia and Călărași, b. 1954
• 22 March 1994Teodosie Petrescu Archbishop of Tomis, b. 1955
• 15 August 1998Basil Flueraș Bishop, b. 1948
• 1999Sofronie Drincec Bishop of Oradea, Bihor and Sălaj, b. 1967
• 15 October 2000Ambrose Meleacă Bishop of Giurgiu, b. 1969
• 25 March 2001Sebastian Bishop of Slatina and Romanaţi, b. 1966
• 30 September 2001Varsanufie Gogescu Archbishop of Râmnic, b. 1968
• 14 July 2002Nicholas Condrea Metropolitan of the Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese of America and Canada, b. 1967
• 22 September 2002Cyprian Spiridon Archbishop of Buzău, b. 1965
• 11 May 2003Sofian Pătrunjel Bishop of Brașov, b. 1970

Sources

• wikidata.org

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