Silouan Şpan

Life

Born

5 March 1970

Ordained deacon

21 January 1994

Ordained priest

6 March 1994

Monastic tonsure

21 July 2000

Consecrated bishop

21 October 2001

Sees

1. 21 October 2001 – 5 March 2008

   Bishop of Marseille

   Vicar of Central and Southern Europe · Patriarchate of Romania

2. 5 March 2008 – present

   Bishop of Italy

   Patriarchate of Romania

Consecration

Consecrated 21 October 2001 by:

• Joseph Pop Metropolitan of Western and Central Europe, b. 1966
• Serapheim Joantă Metropolitan of Germany and Central Europe, b. 1948
• Teofan Savu Metropolitan of Moldova and Bukovina, b. 1959
• Ioachim Giosanu Archbishop of Roman and Bacău, b. 1954

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. Silouan Şpan Bishop of Italy consecrated 21 October 2001
2. Joseph Pop Metropolitan of Western and Central Europe, b. 1966 consecrated 15 March 1998
3. Nathaniel Popp Archbishop of Detroit and the Romanian Episcopate, b. 1940 consecrated 15 November 1980
4. Cyril Yonchev Archbishop of Pittsburgh, Western Pennsylvania and the Bulgarian Diocese, 1920–2007 consecrated 9 August 1964
5. John Maximovich Archbishop of San Francisco and Western America, 1896–1966 consecrated 1934
6. Anthony Khrapovitsky Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1863–1936 consecrated 7 September 1897
7. Arsenii Bryantsev Archbishop of Kharkiv and Okhtyrka, 1839–1914 consecrated 17 May 1882
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 4

• 7 May 2005Mark Alric Bishop of Neamț, b. 1958
• 25 May 2008Timothy Lauran Bishop of Spain and Portugal, b. 1975
• 15 April 2018Teofil Roman Bishop of Iberia, b. 1971
• 1 May 2018Atanasie Rusnac Bishop of Bogdania, b. 1982

Sources

Also in: Wikidata