Cyril Kovachev

Life

Born

8 June 1954

Monastic tonsure

21 July 1972

Ordained deacon

17 December 1972

Ordained priest

14 November 1976

Made archimandrite

25 December 1980

Consecrated bishop

26 June 1988

Made metropolitan

1989

Died

9 July 2013

Sees

1. 26 June 1988 – 26 February 1989

   Bishop of Stobi

   Patriarchate of Bulgaria

2. 26 February 1989 – 9 July 2013

   Metropolitan of Varna and Veliki Preslav

   Patriarchate of Bulgaria

3. 2012 – 2013

   Locum tenens of the Patriarchal Throne

   Patriarchate of Bulgaria

Consecration

Consecrated 26 June 1988. His consecrators are not yet in the data.

Bishops he consecrated 12

• 6 July 2003Tikhon Ivanov Bishop of Tiberiopolis (Strumica), b. 1945
• 17 March 2007Naum Dimitrov Metropolitan of Ruse (Cherven), b. 1968
• 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
• 25 October 2009Theoktistos Kloukinas Metropolitan of Phokida, b. 1950
• 29 November 2009Cyril Pokrovskii Metropolitan of Stavropol and Nevinnomyssk, b. 1963
• 29 October 2010Gregory Tsvetkov Metropolitan of Vratsa, b. 1970
• 30 November 2010John Stoikov Bishop of Glavinica, 1949–2019
• 18 December 2011Serapheim Dinkov Metropolitan of Nevrokop, b. 1974

Sources

Also in: Wikidata