Nikodim Vulpe

Life

Born

4 September 1956

Ordained deacon

18 March 1981

Ordained priest

21 May 1981

Monastic tonsure

23 January 2009

Made archimandrite

19 February 2009

Elected bishop

24 December 2010

Consecrated bishop

26 December 2010

Made archbishop

16 May 2021

Sees

1. 26 December 2010 – 16 May 2021

   Bishop of Edineţ and Briceni

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 16 May 2021 – present

   Archbishop of Edineţ and Briceni

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 26 December 2010 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Juvenal Poyarkov Former Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomenskoye, b. 1935
• Vladimir Cantarean Metropolitan of Chișinău and Moldova, b. 1952
• Varsonofii Sudakov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, b. 1955
• Hilarion Alfeyev Metropolitan of Budapest and Hungary, b. 1966
• Alexander Mogilyov Metropolitan of Astana and Kazakhstan, b. 1957
• Justinian Ovchinnikov Archbishop of Elista and Kalmykia, b. 1961
• Cyril Nakonechnii Metropolitan of Kazan and Tatarstan, b. 1961
• Savva Volkov Archbishop of Tiraspol and Dubăsari, b. 1958
• Anatolii Botnari Archbishop of Cahul and Comrat, b. 1950
• Peter Musteață Archbishop of Ungheni and Nisporeni, b. 1967
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• Marcel Mihăescu Archbishop of Bălţi and Făleşti, b. 1959

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. Nikodim Vulpe Archbishop of Edineţ and Briceni consecrated 26 December 2010
2. Vladimir Cantarean Metropolitan of Chișinău and Moldova, b. 1952 consecrated 21 July 1989
3. Leontii Bondar Metropolitan of Orenburg and Buzuluk, 1913–1999 consecrated 10 August 1956
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 5

• 21 September 2011Adrian Ulyanov Bishop of Rzhev and Toropets, b. 1951
• 4 March 2012Ambrose Munteanu Bishop of Bogorodsk, b. 1973
• 8 March 2015John Moșneguțu Archbishop of Soroca and Drochia, b. 1979
• 4 November 2016Silouan Şalari Bishop of Orhei, b. 1977
• 17 June 2018Spyridon Golovastov Archbishop of Dobropole, b. 1975

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata