Ignat Karagyozov

Life

Born

11 July 1972

Monastic tonsure

22 September 1998

Ordained deacon

21 November 1998

Ordained priest

20 December 1998

Made archimandrite

8 September 2001

Consecrated bishop

6 April 2008

Sees

1. 6 April 2008 – present

   Bishop of Provat

   Vicar of Sliven · Patriarchate of Bulgaria

Consecration

Consecrated 6 April 2008 by:

• Yoanikii Nedelchev Metropolitan of Sliven, b. 1939
• Dometian Topuzliev Metropolitan of Vidin, 1932–2017
• Cyril Kovachev Metropolitan of Varna and Veliki Preslav, 1954–2013
• Gregory Stefanov Metropolitan of Veliko Turnovo, b. 1950
• Neofit Dimitrov Patriarch of Bulgaria, Metropolitan of Sofia, b. 1945
• Ignatii Dimov Metropolitan of Pleven, b. 1938
• Gabriel Dinev Metropolitan of Lovech, b. 1950
• Naum Dimitrov Metropolitan of Ruse (Cherven), b. 1968
• John Ivanov Metropolitan of Varna and Veliki Preslav, b. 1969
• Cyprian Kazandzhiev Bishop of Troyan, b. 1976
• Anthony Mikhalev Metropolitan of Western and Central Europe, b. 1978

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 9 generations back to Anthimos IV Vamvakis; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Ignat Karagyozov Bishop of Provat consecrated 6 April 2008
2. Gregory Stefanov Metropolitan of Veliko Turnovo, b. 1950 consecrated 22 December 1985
3. Maksim Minkov Metropolitan of Sofia, Patriarch of Bulgaria, 1914–2012 consecrated 30 December 1956
4. Cyril Konstantinov Patriarch of Bulgaria, Metropolitan of Sofia, 1901–1971 consecrated 12 July 1936
5. Neofit Karaabov Metropolitan of Vidin, 1868–1971 consecrated 21 June 1909
6. Basil Mikhailov Metropolitan of Dorostol and Cherven, 1847–1927 consecrated 18 July 1899
7. Constantine V Valiades Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1833–1914 consecrated 30 January 1876
8. Methodios Aronis Metropolitan of Mytilini, d. 1897 consecrated 12 November 1867
9. Panaret Mishaikov Metropolitan of Plovdiv, 1805–1883 consecrated March 1851
10. Anthimos IV Vamvakis Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1788–1878 consecrated October 1825

Bishops he consecrated 1

• 21 March 2010Benjamin Tupeko Bishop of Borisov and Maryina Horka, b. 1968

Sources

Also in: Wikidata