Gregory Stefanov

Life

Born

10 October 1950

Ordained deacon

1974

Monastic tonsure

February 1974

Ordained priest

1980

Made archimandrite

6 December 1981

Consecrated bishop

22 December 1985

Made metropolitan

27 February 1994

Sees

1. 22 December 1985 – 1987

   Bishop of Constantia

   Vicar of Stara Zagora · Patriarchate of Bulgaria

2. 1987 – 27 February 1994

   Bishop of Constantia

   Vicar of Veliko Turnovo · Patriarchate of Bulgaria

3. 1992 – 1994

   Locum tenens of Vratsa

   Patriarchate of Bulgaria

4. 27 February 1994 – present

   Metropolitan of Veliko Turnovo

   Patriarchate of Bulgaria

Consecration

Consecrated 22 December 1985 by:

• Maksim Minkov Metropolitan of Sofia, Patriarch of Bulgaria, 1914–2012

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 8 generations back to Anthimos IV Vamvakis; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Gregory Stefanov Metropolitan of Veliko Turnovo consecrated 22 December 1985
2. Maksim Minkov Metropolitan of Sofia, Patriarch of Bulgaria, 1914–2012 consecrated 30 December 1956
3. Cyril Konstantinov Patriarch of Bulgaria, Metropolitan of Sofia, 1901–1971 consecrated 12 July 1936
4. Neofit Karaabov Metropolitan of Vidin, 1868–1971 consecrated 21 June 1909
5. Basil Mikhailov Metropolitan of Dorostol and Cherven, 1847–1927 consecrated 18 July 1899
6. Constantine V Valiades Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1833–1914 consecrated 30 January 1876
7. Methodios Aronis Metropolitan of Mytilini, d. 1897 consecrated 12 November 1867
8. Panaret Mishaikov Metropolitan of Plovdiv, 1805–1883 consecrated March 1851
9. Anthimos IV Vamvakis Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1788–1878 consecrated October 1825

Bishops he consecrated 14

• 17 March 2007Naum Dimitrov Metropolitan of Ruse (Cherven), b. 1968
• 18 March 2007John Ivanov Metropolitan of Varna and Veliki Preslav, b. 1969
• 24 March 2007Sionii Radev Bishop of Velika, b. 1969
• 20 January 2008Daniel Nikolov Metropolitan of Vidin, b. 1972
• 6 April 2008Ignat Karagyozov Bishop of Provat, b. 1972
• 29 October 2010Gregory Tsvetkov Metropolitan of Vratsa, b. 1970
• 30 November 2010John Stoikov Bishop of Glavinica, 1949–2019
• 18 December 2011Serapheim Dinkov Metropolitan of Nevrokop, b. 1974
• 6 July 2014Arsenii Lazarov Bishop of Znepole, b. 1986
• 27 July 2014Polycarp Petrov Bishop of Belogradchik, b. 1978
• 1 October 2014Hierotheos Kosakov Bishop of Agathopolis, b. 1977
• 18 December 2016Gerasim Georgiev Bishop of Melnik, b. 1979
• 20 December 2016Iakov Donchev Bishop of Constantia, b. 1971
• 10 June 2023Isaac Boyadzhiiski Bishop of Velbudzh, b. 1982

Sources

• wikidata.org

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