Nathaniel Kalaidzhiev

Life

Born

16 November 1952

Ordained deacon

1974

Monastic tonsure

3 March 1974

Ordained priest

1975

Made archimandrite

10 October 1980

Consecrated bishop

25 March 1989

Made metropolitan

24 April 1994

Died

16 November 2013

Sees

1. 25 March 1989 – 24 April 1994

   Bishop of Krupnik

   Patriarchate of Bulgaria

2. 24 April 1994 – 16 November 2013

   Metropolitan of Nevrokop

   Patriarchate of Bulgaria

Consecration

Consecrated 25 March 1989 by:

• Maksim Minkov Metropolitan of Sofia, Patriarch of Bulgaria, 1914–2012

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. Nathaniel Kalaidzhiev Metropolitan of Nevrokop consecrated 25 March 1989
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 11

• 19 August 2003Longin Korchagin Metropolitan of Simbirsk and Novospasskoye, b. 1961
• 17 March 2007Naum Dimitrov Metropolitan of Ruse (Cherven), b. 1968
• 18 March 2007John Ivanov Metropolitan of Varna and Veliki Preslav, b. 1969
• 10 June 2007Irinei Semko Metropolitan of Nizhyn and Pryluky, 1963–2017
• 20 January 2008Daniel Nikolov Metropolitan of Vidin, b. 1972
• 24 October 2009Serapheim Kalogeropoulos Bishop of Rentina, 1945–2016
• 25 October 2009Theoktistos Kloukinas Metropolitan of Phokida, b. 1950
• 16 May 2010John Tassias Metropolitan of Lagadas, Lete and Rentina, 1958–2020
• 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

Sources

• wikidata.org

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