Serapheim Dinkov

Life

Born

4 July 1974

Monastic tonsure

18 November 2000

Ordained deacon

19 November 2000

Ordained priest

20 December 2000

Made archimandrite

1 July 2006

Consecrated bishop

18 December 2011

Made metropolitan

19 January 2014

Sees

1. 18 December 2011 – 19 January 2014

   Bishop of Melnik

   Vicar of Nevrokop · Patriarchate of Bulgaria

2. 19 January 2014 – present

   Metropolitan of Nevrokop

   Patriarchate of Bulgaria

Consecration

Consecrated 18 December 2011 by:

• Nathaniel Kalaidzhiev Metropolitan of Nevrokop, 1952–2013
• Yoanikii Nedelchev Metropolitan of Sliven, b. 1939
• Dometian Topuzliev Metropolitan of Vidin, 1932–2017
• Cyril Kovachev Metropolitan of Varna and Veliki Preslav, 1954–2013
• Joseph Bosakov Metropolitan of America, Canada and Australia, b. 1942
• Gregory Stefanov Metropolitan of Veliko Turnovo, b. 1950
• Ignatii Dimov Metropolitan of Pleven, b. 1938
• Gabriel Dinev Metropolitan of Lovech, b. 1950
• Nicholas Sevastiyanov Metropolitan of Plovdiv, b. 1969
• Ambrose Parashkevov Metropolitan of Dorostol, 1942–2020
• Naum Dimitrov Metropolitan of Ruse (Cherven), b. 1968
• Tikhon Ivanov Bishop of Tiberiopolis (Strumica), b. 1945
• Evlogii Stamboldzhiev Bishop of Adrianopolis, b. 1954
• Teodosii Kupichkov Bishop of Devol, 1934–2017
• John Ivanov Metropolitan of Varna and Veliki Preslav, b. 1969
• Boris Dobrev Former Bishop of Agathonica, b. 1953
• Gregory Tsvetkov Metropolitan of Vratsa, b. 1970

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. Serapheim Dinkov Metropolitan of Nevrokop consecrated 18 December 2011
2. Ambrose Parashkevov Metropolitan of Dorostol, 1942–2020 consecrated 3 April 1994
3. Pimen Enev Metropolitan of Nevrokop, 1906–1999 consecrated 21 December 1947
4. Stephen I Shokov Metropolitan of Sofia, 1878–1957 consecrated 1 April 1921
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 6

• 1 October 2014Hierotheos Kosakov Bishop of Agathopolis, b. 1977
• 18 December 2016Gerasim Georgiev Bishop of Melnik, b. 1979
• 20 December 2016Iakov Donchev Bishop of Constantia, b. 1971
• 26 September 2021Mikhail Dilovski Bishop of Constantia, b. 1981
• 19 October 2021Pakhomii Lozanov Bishop of Braničevo, b. 1978
• 10 June 2023Isaac Boyadzhiiski Bishop of Velbudzh, b. 1982