Symeon Kostadinov

Life

Born

17 September 1926

Monastic tonsure

6 December 1954

Ordained deacon

12 February 1955

Ordained priest

8 October 1958

Made archimandrite

1 November 1961

Consecrated bishop

14 January 1973

Made metropolitan

1986

Retired

11 June 2013

Died

16 April 2016

Sees

1. 14 January 1973 – 22 December 1980

   Bishop of Glavinica

   Vicar of the Metropolitanate of New York · Patriarchate of Bulgaria

2. 1973

   Locum tenens of Akron

   Patriarchate of Bulgaria

3. 22 December 1980 – 17 April 1986

   Bishop

   Vicar of Western Europe · Patriarchate of Bulgaria

4. 17 April 1986 – 30 May 1994

   Metropolitan of Western Europe

   Patriarchate of Bulgaria

5. 30 May 1994 – 11 June 2013

   Metropolitan of Western and Central Europe

   Patriarchate of Bulgaria

6. 11 June 2013 – 16 April 2016

   Former Metropolitan of Western and Central Europe

   Patriarchate of Bulgaria

Consecration

Consecrated 14 January 1973 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. Symeon Kostadinov Former Metropolitan of Western and Central Europe consecrated 14 January 1973
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 3

• 11 May 2003Sofian Pătrunjel Bishop of Brașov, b. 1970
• 6 July 2003Tikhon Ivanov Bishop of Tiberiopolis (Strumica), b. 1945
• 30 November 2010John Stoikov Bishop of Glavinica, 1949–2019

Sources

• wikidata.org

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