Dometian Topuzliev

Life

Born

11 November 1932

Monastic tonsure

14 January 1959

Ordained deacon

10 March 1959

Ordained priest

18 July 1962

Made archimandrite

4 December 1963

Consecrated bishop

15 December 1974

Made metropolitan

26 July 1987

Died

18 September 2017

Sees

1. 15 December 1974 – 1979

   Bishop of Znepole

   Patriarchate of Bulgaria

2. 1979 – 1983

   Bishop of Akron

   Patriarchate of Bulgaria

3. 1983 – 26 July 1987

   Bishop

   Vicar of Sofia · Patriarchate of Bulgaria

4. 26 July 1987 – 18 September 2017

   Metropolitan of Vidin

   Patriarchate of Bulgaria

Consecration

Consecrated 15 December 1974. His consecrators are not yet in the data.

Bishops he consecrated 13

• 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
• 3 March 2008Cyprian Kazandzhiev Bishop of Troyan, b. 1976
• 22 March 2008Boris Dobrev Former Bishop of Agathonica, b. 1953
• 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
• 27 July 2014Polycarp Petrov Bishop of Belogradchik, b. 1978

Sources

Also in: Wikidata