Neofit Dimitrov

Life

Born

15 October 1945

Monastic tonsure

3 August 1975

Ordained deacon

15 August 1975

Ordained priest

25 March 1976

Made archimandrite

21 November 1977

Consecrated bishop

8 December 1985

Made metropolitan

27 March 1994

Became patriarch

24 February 2013

Sees

1. 8 December 1985 – 27 March 1994

   Bishop of Levka

   Vicar of Sofia · Patriarchate of Bulgaria

2. 27 March 1994 – 19 December 2001

   Metropolitan of Dorostol and Cherven

   Patriarchate of Bulgaria

3. 19 December 2001 – 24 February 2013

   Metropolitan of Ruse

   Patriarchate of Bulgaria

4. 2009 – 2010

   Locum tenens of Dorostol

   Patriarchate of Bulgaria

5. 24 February 2013 – present

   Patriarch of Bulgaria, Metropolitan of Sofia

   Patriarchate of Bulgaria

Consecration

Consecrated 8 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. Neofit Dimitrov Patriarch of Bulgaria, Metropolitan of Sofia consecrated 8 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 9

• 6 July 2003Tikhon Ivanov Bishop of Tiberiopolis (Strumica), b. 1945
• 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
• 22 March 2008Boris Dobrev Former Bishop of Agathonica, b. 1953
• 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 2016Gerasim Georgiev Bishop of Melnik, b. 1979

Sources

• wikidata.org

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