Naum Dimitrov

Life

Born

19 October 1968

Monastic tonsure

22 December 1990

Ordained deacon

1991

Ordained priest

27 July 1992

Made archimandrite

20 December 1998

Consecrated bishop

17 March 2007

Made metropolitan

23 March 2014

Sees

1. 17 March 2007 – 23 March 2014

   Bishop of Stobi

   Vicar of Sofia · Patriarchate of Bulgaria

2. 23 March 2014 – present

   Metropolitan of Ruse (Cherven)

   Patriarchate of Bulgaria

Consecration

Consecrated 17 March 2007 by:

• Maksim Minkov Metropolitan of Sofia, Patriarch of Bulgaria, 1914–2012
• Kalinik Aleksandrov Metropolitan of Vratsa, 1931–2016
• Yoanikii Nedelchev Metropolitan of Sliven, b. 1939
• Dometian Topuzliev Metropolitan of Vidin, 1932–2017
• Cyril Kovachev Metropolitan of Varna and Veliki Preslav, 1954–2013
• Gregory Stefanov Metropolitan of Veliko Turnovo, b. 1950
• Nathaniel Kalaidzhiev Metropolitan of Nevrokop, 1952–2013
• Ignatii Dimov Metropolitan of Pleven, b. 1938
• Gabriel Dinev Metropolitan of Lovech, b. 1950
• Hilarion Tsonev Metropolitan of Dorostol, 1913–2009
• Nicholas Sevastiyanov Metropolitan of Plovdiv, b. 1969
• Evlogii Stamboldzhiev Bishop of Adrianopolis, b. 1954
• Teodosii Kupichkov Bishop of Devol, 1934–2017
• Constantine Petrov Bishop of Markianopol, 1941–2017

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 8 generations back to Anthimos IV Vamvakis; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Naum Dimitrov Metropolitan of Ruse (Cherven) consecrated 17 March 2007
2. Maksim Minkov Metropolitan of Sofia, Patriarch of Bulgaria, 1914–2012 consecrated 30 December 1956
3. Cyril Konstantinov Patriarch of Bulgaria, Metropolitan of Sofia, 1901–1971 consecrated 12 July 1936
4. Neofit Karaabov Metropolitan of Vidin, 1868–1971 consecrated 21 June 1909
5. Basil Mikhailov Metropolitan of Dorostol and Cherven, 1847–1927 consecrated 18 July 1899
6. Constantine V Valiades Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1833–1914 consecrated 30 January 1876
7. Methodios Aronis Metropolitan of Mytilini, d. 1897 consecrated 12 November 1867
8. Panaret Mishaikov Metropolitan of Plovdiv, 1805–1883 consecrated March 1851
9. Anthimos IV Vamvakis Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1788–1878 consecrated October 1825

Bishops he consecrated 8

• 18 March 2007John Ivanov Metropolitan of Varna and Veliki Preslav, b. 1969
• 24 March 2007Sionii Radev Bishop of Velika, b. 1969
• 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
• 18 December 2016Gerasim Georgiev Bishop of Melnik, b. 1979
• 26 June 2022Makarii Chakarov Bishop of Glavinica, b. 1981

Sources

Also in: Wikidata