Yoanikii Nedelchev

Life

Born

3 March 1939

Monastic tonsure

1 April 1961

Ordained deacon

28 August 1961

Ordained priest

17 March 1963

Made archimandrite

24 November 1968

Consecrated bishop

20 April 1975

Made metropolitan

13 April 1980

Sees

1. 20 April 1975 – 13 April 1980

   Bishop of Velika

   Vicar of Sliven · Patriarchate of Bulgaria

2. 13 April 1980 – present

   Metropolitan of Sliven

   Patriarchate of Bulgaria

Consecration

Consecrated 20 April 1975. His consecrators are not yet in the data.

Bishops he consecrated 11

• 17 March 2007Naum Dimitrov Metropolitan of Ruse (Cherven), b. 1968
• 18 March 2007John Ivanov Metropolitan of Varna and Veliki Preslav, b. 1969
• 20 January 2008Daniel Nikolov Metropolitan of Vidin, b. 1972
• 22 March 2008Boris Dobrev Former Bishop of Agathonica, b. 1953
• 23 March 2008Anthony Mikhalev Metropolitan of Western and Central Europe, b. 1978
• 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 2011Serapheim Dinkov Metropolitan of Nevrokop, b. 1974
• 6 July 2014Arsenii Lazarov Bishop of Znepole, b. 1986
• 1 October 2014Hierotheos Kosakov Bishop of Agathopolis, b. 1977

Sources

Also in: Wikidata