Varlaam Merticariu

Life

Born

28 October 1960

Monastic tonsure

1998

Made archimandrite

2001

Elected bishop

29 October 2009

Consecrated bishop

20 December 2009

Sees

1. 20 December 2009 – present

   Bishop of Ploiești

   Vicar of the Patriarch of Romania · Patriarchate of Romania

Consecration

Consecrated 20 December 2009 by:

• Daniel Ciobotea Patriarch of Romania, Archbishop of Bucharest, Metropolitan of Muntenia and Dobruja, b. 1951
• Nifon Mihăiţă Metropolitan of Târgoviște, b. 1944
• Teodosie Petrescu Archbishop of Tomis, b. 1955
• Calinic Argatu Archbishop of Argeș and Muscel, b. 1944
• Timothy Seviciu Archbishop of Arad, Ienopolis and Hălmagiu, b. 1936
• Sofronie Drincec Bishop of Oradea, Bihor and Sălaj, b. 1967
• Vincent Grifoni Bishop of Slobozia and Călărași, b. 1954
• Ambrose Meleacă Bishop of Giurgiu, b. 1969
• Daniel Stoenescu Bishop of Densuș, b. 1957
• Cyprian Spiridon Archbishop of Buzău, b. 1965
• Varsanufie Gogescu Archbishop of Râmnic, b. 1968
• Emilian Nica Bishop of Crișana, b. 1972

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 12 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Varlaam Merticariu Bishop of Ploiești consecrated 20 December 2009
2. Sofronie Drincec Bishop of Oradea, Bihor and Sălaj, b. 1967 consecrated 1999
3. Peter Păduraru Metropolitan of Bessarabia, b. 1946 consecrated 1 September 1990
4. Vladimir Kotlyarov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1929–2022 consecrated 30 December 1962
5. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
6. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
7. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
8. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
9. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
10. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
11. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
12. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
13. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 6

• 24 May 2014Anthony Telembici Bishop of Bălţi, b. 1963
• 29 May 2014Ieronim Crețu Bishop of Dacia Felix, b. 1959
• 30 October 2014Timothy Aioanei Bishop of Prahova, b. 1966
• 23 November 2014Qais Sadiq Bishop of Erzurum, b. 1954
• 26 May 2018Benjamin Goreanu Bishop of Southern Bessarabia, b. 1975
• 20 July 2023Paisie Teodorescu Bishop of Sinaia, b. 1972

Sources

• patriarhia.ro
• arhiva.basilica.ro

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