Avksentii Goleminov

Life

Born

ca. 1850

Monastic tonsure

1869

Ordained deacon

1870

Made archimandrite

1893

Elected bishop

April 1894

Consecrated bishop

6 May 1894

Made metropolitan

6 May 1894

Died

24 February 1919

Sees

1. 6 May 1894 – 1906

   Metropolitan of Veles

   Patriarchate of Bulgaria

2. 1906 – 1913

   Metropolitan of Pelagonia

   Patriarchate of Bulgaria

3. 1913 – December 1915

   Metropolitan of No See

   Patriarchate of Bulgaria

4. December 1915 – 1918

   Metropolitan of Pelagonia

   Patriarchate of Bulgaria

5. 1918 – 24 February 1919

   Former Metropolitan of Pelagonia

   Patriarchate of Bulgaria

Consecration

Consecrated 6 May 1894 by:

• Joseph I Yovchev Exarch of Bulgaria, 1840–1915

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 3 generations back to Joachim II Kokkodes; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Avksentii Goleminov Metropolitan consecrated 6 May 1894
2. Joseph I Yovchev Exarch of Bulgaria, 1840–1915 consecrated 1876
3. Antim I Chalakov Former Exarch of Exarchate of Bulgaria, 1816–1888
4. Joachim II Kokkodes Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1802–1878 consecrated December 1827

Bishops he consecrated 1

• 8 March 1909Clement Shivachev Bishop of Vratsa, 1873–1930