Polycarp Popescu

Life

Born

1831

Consecrated bishop

11 November 1873

Died

8 October 1876

Sees

1. 11 November 1873 – 8 October 1876

   Bishop of Bârlad

   Vicar of Huși · Patriarchate of Romania

Consecration

Consecrated 11 November 1873 by:

• Nifon Rusailă Archbishop of Bucharest, Metropolitan of Hungro-Wallachia and Primate of All Romania, 1789–1875
• Joseph Naniescu Metropolitan of Argeș
• Theodoret Bishop of Synada and Craiova, d. 1883

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 Methodios I Barotses; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Polycarp Popescu Bishop of Bârlad consecrated 11 November 1873
2. Theodoret Bishop of Synada and Craiova, d. 1883 consecrated 20 October 1856
3. Gregory Goudocheiras Bishop of Agathonica, 1809–1877 consecrated 12 May 1849
4. Athanasios Tziotes Metropolitan of Palmyra, d. 1856 consecrated 1835
5. Methodios I Barotses Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, 1771–1850 consecrated 1814