Visarion Puiu

Life

Born

27 September 1879

Monastic tonsure

22 December 1905

Ordained deacon

25 December 1905

Ordained priest

6 December 1908

Made archimandrite

1 January 1909

Consecrated bishop

25 March 1921

Made metropolitan

17 October 1935

Died

10 August 1964

Sees

1. 25 March 1921 – 1923

   Bishop of Argeș

   Patriarchate of Romania

2. 1923 – 17 October 1935

   Bishop of Hotin

   Patriarchate of Romania

3. 17 October 1935 – 1943

   Metropolitan of Bukovina

   Patriarchate of Romania

4. 1943 – 1948

   Former Metropolitan of Bukovina

   Patriarchate of Romania

5. 1948 – 1949

   Metropolitan of the Romanian Diocese of Western Europe

   ROCOR

6. 1949 – 1 April 1958

   Metropolitan of the Romanian Orthodox Church Abroad

   Romanian Orthodox Church Abroad

7. 1 April 1958 – 10 August 1964

   Former Metropolitan of the Romanian Orthodox Church Abroad

   Romanian Orthodox Church Abroad

Consecration

Consecrated 25 March 1921 by:

• Miron Cristea Patriarch of Romania, Archbishop of Bucharest, Metropolitan of Muntenia and Dobruja, 1868–1939

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 1 generation back to Miron Cristea; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Visarion Puiu Metropolitan of the Romanian Orthodox Church Abroad consecrated 25 March 1921
2. Miron Cristea Patriarch of Romania, Archbishop of Bucharest, Metropolitan of Muntenia and Dobruja, 1868–1939 consecrated 1910

Bishops he consecrated 3

• 29 April 1923Hilarion Teodorescu Bishop of Tomis, 1867–1925
• 25 September 1937Partenie Ciopron Bishop of Roman and Huși, 1896–1980
• 26 December 1954Teofil Ionescu Archbishop of Central and Western Europe, 1894–1975

Sources

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