Peter Pruteanu

Life

Born

15 December 1979

Monastic tonsure

21 December 2002

Ordained deacon

4 August 2003

Ordained priest

5 October 2003

Made hegumen

2008

Elected bishop

13 October 2022

Made archimandrite

16 October 2022

Consecrated bishop

27 November 2022

Sees

1. 27 November 2022 – present

   Bishop of Kaffa

   Exarch of Western Europe · Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 27 November 2022 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Paul Ponomaryov Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna, b. 1952
• Anthony Sevryuk Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, b. 1984
• Nestor Sirotenko Metropolitan of Stupino, b. 1974
• Gerasim Shevtsov Archbishop of Vladikavkaz and the Alans, b. 1971

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 11 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Peter Pruteanu Bishop of Kaffa consecrated 27 November 2022
2. Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946 consecrated 14 March 1976
3. Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978 consecrated 10 July 1960
4. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
5. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
6. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
7. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
8. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
9. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
10. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
11. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
12. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735