Serapheim Joantă

Life

Born

4 September 1948

Monastic tonsure

17 February 1990

Made archimandrite

17 February 1990

Consecrated bishop

11 March 1990

Made metropolitan

12 January 1994

Sees

1. 11 March 1990 – 12 January 1994

   Bishop of Făgăraș

   Vicar of Sibiu · Patriarchate of Romania

2. 12 January 1994 – present

   Metropolitan of Germany and Central Europe

   Patriarchate of Romania

Consecration

Consecrated 11 March 1990 by:

• Anthony Plămădeală Archbishop of Sibiu and Metropolitan of Transylvania, 1926–2005
• Justinian Chira Archbishop of Maramureș and Sătmar, 1921–2016
• Andrew Andreicuț Metropolitan of Cluj, b. 1949
• John Mihălțan Bishop of Oradea, Bihor and Sălaj, 1926–2008

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 5 generations back to Pimen Georgescu; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Serapheim Joantă Metropolitan of Germany and Central Europe consecrated 11 March 1990
2. Anthony Plămădeală Archbishop of Sibiu and Metropolitan of Transylvania, 1926–2005 consecrated 27 December 1970
3. Justinian Marina Patriarch of Romania, Archbishop of Bucharest, Metropolitan of Muntenia and Dobruja, 1901–1977 consecrated 12 August 1945
4. Valerian Moglan Bishop of Botoșani, 1878–1949 consecrated 25 March 1938
5. Nicodim Munteanu Patriarch of Romania, Archbishop of Bucharest, Metropolitan of Muntenia and Dobruja, 1864–1948 consecrated 24 May 1909
6. Pimen Georgescu Archbishop of Iași and Metropolitan of Moldova, 1853–1934 consecrated 2 February 1895

Bishops he consecrated 12

• 15 March 1998Joseph Pop Metropolitan of Western and Central Europe, b. 1966
• 15 August 1998Basil Flueraș Bishop, b. 1948
• 1999Sofronie Drincec Bishop of Oradea, Bihor and Sălaj, b. 1967
• 21 October 2001Silouan Şpan Bishop of Italy, b. 1970
• 14 July 2002Nicholas Condrea Metropolitan of the Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese of America and Canada, b. 1967
• 11 May 2003Sofian Pătrunjel Bishop of Brașov, b. 1970
• 7 May 2005Mark Alric Bishop of Neamț, b. 1958
• 8 July 2007Siluan Manuilă Bishop of Hungary, b. 1972
• 2 May 2008Macarie Drăgoi Bishop of Northern Europe, b. 1977
• 15 August 2008Andrew Moldovan Bishop of Covasna and Harghita, b. 1967
• 15 April 2018Teofil Roman Bishop of Iberia, b. 1971
• 1 May 2018Atanasie Rusnac Bishop of Bogdania, b. 1982

Sources

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