Pimen Zainea

Life

Born

25 August 1929

Ordained deacon

1951

Monastic tonsure

10 March 1951

Ordained priest

1957

Made archimandrite

1975

Consecrated bishop

24 June 1982

Made archbishop

3 March 1991

Died

20 May 2020

Sees

1. 24 June 1982 – 3 March 1991

   Bishop of Suceava

   Vicar of Iași · Patriarchate of Romania

2. 3 March 1991 – 20 May 2020

   Archbishop of Suceava and Rădăuți

   Patriarchate of Romania

Consecration

Consecrated 24 June 1982 by:

• Justin Moisescu Patriarch of Romania, Archbishop of Bucharest, Metropolitan of Muntenia and Dobruja, 1910–1986

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 4 generations back to Pimen Georgescu; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Pimen Zainea Archbishop of Suceava and Rădăuți consecrated 24 June 1982
2. Justin Moisescu Patriarch of Romania, Archbishop of Bucharest, Metropolitan of Muntenia and Dobruja, 1910–1986 consecrated 15 March 1956
3. Nicholas Colan Archbishop of Sibiu and Metropolitan of Transylvania, 1893–1967 consecrated 31 May 1936
4. Nicodim Munteanu Patriarch of Romania, Archbishop of Bucharest, Metropolitan of Muntenia and Dobruja, 1864–1948 consecrated 24 May 1909
5. Pimen Georgescu Archbishop of Iași and Metropolitan of Moldova, 1853–1934 consecrated 2 February 1895

Bishops he consecrated 1

• 23 July 2017Damaschin Luchian Bishop of Dorna, b. 1981

Sources

• wikidata.org

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