Peter Păduraru

Life

Born

24 October 1946

Monastic tonsure

29 March 1969

Ordained deacon

29 December 1970

Ordained priest

23 February 1973

Made archimandrite

3 December 1989

Consecrated bishop

1 September 1990

Made metropolitan

3 October 1995

Sees

1. 1 September 1990 – 3 October 1995

   Bishop of Bălţi

   Vicar of Chișinău · Patriarchate of Romania

2. 3 October 1995 – present

   Metropolitan of Bessarabia

   Patriarchate of Romania

Consecration

Consecrated 1 September 1990 by:

• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• Vladimir Kotlyarov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1929–2022
• Leontii Gudimov Metropolitan of Donetsk and Slovyansk, 1928–1992
• Vladimir Cantarean Metropolitan of Chișinău and Moldova, b. 1952
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Daniel Ciobotea Patriarch of Romania, Archbishop of Bucharest, Metropolitan of Muntenia and Dobruja, b. 1951

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 10 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Peter Păduraru Metropolitan of Bessarabia consecrated 1 September 1990
2. Vladimir Kotlyarov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1929–2022 consecrated 30 December 1962
3. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
4. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
5. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
6. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
7. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
8. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
9. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
10. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
11. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 5

• 2 September 1990Vincent Morar Metropolitan of Tashkent and Uzbekistan, b. 1953
• 1999Sofronie Drincec Bishop of Oradea, Bihor and Sălaj, b. 1967
• 24 May 2014Anthony Telembici Bishop of Bălţi, b. 1963
• 26 May 2018Benjamin Goreanu Bishop of Southern Bessarabia, b. 1975
• Nichifor Horia Bishop of Botoșani, b. 1967

Sources

Also in: Wikidata