Partenie Ciopron

Life

Born

30 September 1896

Monastic tonsure

21 May 1921

Ordained deacon

22 July 1921

Ordained priest

20 April 1934

Made archimandrite

25 April 1934

Consecrated bishop

25 September 1937

Retired

1 January 1978

Died

28 July 1980

Sees

1. 25 September 1937 – 22 August 1948

   Bishop of Armatei (Armed Forces)

   Patriarchate of Romania

2. 1941 – 1944

   Locum tenens of Bălţi

   Patriarchate of Romania

3. 22 August 1948 – 18 February 1962

   Former Bishop of Armatei (Armed Forces)

   Patriarchate of Romania

4. 1961 – 1962

   Locum tenens of Roman and Huși

   Patriarchate of Romania

5. 18 February 1962 – 1 January 1978

   Bishop of Roman and Huși

   Patriarchate of Romania

6. 1 January 1978 – 28 July 1980

   Former Bishop of Roman and Huși

   Patriarchate of Romania

Consecration

Consecrated 25 September 1937 by:

• Visarion Puiu Metropolitan of the Romanian Orthodox Church Abroad, 1879–1964
• Gregory Leu Bishop of Huși, 1881–1949
• Polycarp Moruşca Bishop of Maramureș, 1883–1958

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 Miron Cristea; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Partenie Ciopron Bishop of Roman and Huși consecrated 25 September 1937
2. Visarion Puiu Metropolitan of the Romanian Orthodox Church Abroad, 1879–1964 consecrated 25 March 1921
3. Miron Cristea Patriarch of Romania, Archbishop of Bucharest, Metropolitan of Muntenia and Dobruja, 1868–1939 consecrated 1910

Bishops he consecrated 2

• 28 February 1938Efrem Enăchescu Metropolitan of Chișinău and Metropolitan of Bessarabia, 1893–1968
• 8 June 1941Benjamin Nistor Former Bishop of Caransebeș, 1866–1963