Orthodox Hierarchs

Patriarchate of Bulgaria

Dositei Stoichev

Доситей

Metropolitan of Samokov · 1837–1907

Born Dimitar Stoichev (Димитър Стойчев)

Life

Born
8 January 1837
Made archimandrite
1870
Consecrated bishop
5 May 1872
Died
14 June 1907

Sees

  1. 5 May 1872 – 14 June 1907

    Metropolitan of Samokov

    Patriarchate of Bulgaria

Consecration

Consecrated 5 May 1872 by:

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 2 generations back to Joachim II Kokkodes; earlier links are not yet in the data.

  1. Dositei Stoichev Metropolitan of Samokov consecrated 5 May 1872
  2. Antim I Chalakov Former Exarch of Exarchate of Bulgaria, 1816–1888
  3. Joachim II Kokkodes Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1802–1878 consecrated December 1827

Bishops he consecrated 1

Sources

Also in: Wikidata

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