Nifon Niculescu

Life

Born

1 July 1858

Ordained deacon

1881

Ordained priest

1883

Monastic tonsure

1895

Consecrated bishop

25 March 1895

Retired

1 January 1922

Died

27 February 1923

Sees

1. 25 March 1895 – 22 March 1909

   Bishop of Ploiești

   Vicar of Bucharest · Patriarchate of Romania

2. 22 March 1909 – 1 January 1922

   Bishop of the Lower Danube

   Patriarchate of Romania

3. 1 January 1922 – 27 February 1923

   Former Bishop of the Lower Danube

   Patriarchate of Romania

Consecration

Consecrated 25 March 1895 by:

• Ghenadie Petrescu Metropolitan of Hungro-Wallachia and Primate of the Church of Romania, 1836–1918
• Silvester Bălăşescu Bishop of Huși, 1838–1900
• Partenie Clinceni Metropolitan of Moldova, 1847–1910

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 5 generations back to Methodios I Barotses; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Nifon Niculescu Bishop of the Lower Danube consecrated 25 March 1895
2. Ghenadie Petrescu Metropolitan of Hungro-Wallachia and Primate of the Church of Romania, 1836–1918 consecrated 23 February 1875
3. Theodoret Bishop of Synada and Craiova, d. 1883 consecrated 20 October 1856
4. Gregory Goudocheiras Bishop of Agathonica, 1809–1877 consecrated 12 May 1849
5. Athanasios Tziotes Metropolitan of Palmyra, d. 1856 consecrated 1835
6. Methodios I Barotses Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, 1771–1850 consecrated 1814

Bishops he consecrated 2

• 4 July 1899Calist Ialomiţeanu Bishop of Argeș, 1860–1917
• 21 May 1910Eugene Humulescu Bishop of Pitești, 1870–1931

Sources

Also in: Wikidata