Cyprian Kazandzhiev

Life

Born

8 March 1976

Monastic tonsure

1 September 1996

Ordained deacon

8 September 1996

Ordained priest

14 September 1996

Made archimandrite

31 August 2003

Consecrated bishop

3 March 2008

Made metropolitan

11 December 2016

Sees

1. 3 March 2008 – 11 December 2016

   Bishop of Troyan

   Vicar of Vratsa · Patriarchate of Bulgaria

2. 11 December 2016 – present

   Metropolitan of Stara Zagora

   Patriarchate of Bulgaria

3. 2016 – 2017

   Locum tenens of Vratsa

   Patriarchate of Bulgaria

Consecration

Consecrated 3 March 2008 by:

• Kalinik Aleksandrov Metropolitan of Vratsa, 1931–2016
• Dometian Topuzliev Metropolitan of Vidin, 1932–2017
• Teodosii Kupichkov Bishop of Devol, 1934–2017
• Ambrose Parashkevov Metropolitan of Dorostol, 1942–2020
• Constantine Petrov Bishop of Markianopol, 1941–2017
• Yakov Tasev Bishop of Mesembria, b. 1956
• Sionii Radev Bishop of Velika, b. 1969

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. Cyprian Kazandzhiev Bishop of Troyan consecrated 3 March 2008
2. Constantine Petrov Bishop of Markianopol, 1941–2017 consecrated 27 August 1997
3. Pimen Enev Metropolitan of Nevrokop, 1906–1999 consecrated 21 December 1947
4. Stephen I Shokov Metropolitan of Sofia, 1878–1957 consecrated 1 April 1921
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 7

• 6 April 2008Ignat Karagyozov Bishop of Provat, b. 1972
• 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
• 20 December 2016Iakov Donchev Bishop of Constantia, b. 1971
• 21 February 2021Visarion Grivov Bishop of Smolyan, b. 1971
• 26 September 2021Mikhail Dilovski Bishop of Constantia, b. 1981

Sources

Also in: Wikidata