Andrew Moldovan

Life

Born

22 November 1967

Monastic tonsure

19 July 1990

Ordained deacon

20 July 1990

Ordained priest

21 July 1990

Made archimandrite

29 August 2006

Consecrated bishop

15 August 2008

Sees

1. 15 August 2008 – 5 February 2015

   Bishop of Făgăraș

   Vicar of Sibiu · Patriarchate of Romania

2. 5 February 2015 – present

   Bishop of Covasna and Harghita

   Patriarchate of Romania

Consecration

Consecrated 15 August 2008 by:

• Laurence Streza Metropolitan of Transylvania, b. 1947
• Irineu Popa Metropolitan of Oltenia, b. 1957
• Serapheim Joantă Metropolitan of Germany and Central Europe, b. 1948
• John Selejan Archbishop of Timișoara and Metropolitan of Banat, b. 1951
• Paisie Gheorghe Bishop of Lugoj, b. 1971

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 13 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Andrew Moldovan Bishop of Covasna and Harghita consecrated 15 August 2008
2. Paisie Gheorghe Bishop of Lugoj, b. 1971 consecrated 19 February 2006
3. Sofronie Drincec Bishop of Oradea, Bihor and Sălaj, b. 1967 consecrated 1999
4. Peter Păduraru Metropolitan of Bessarabia, b. 1946 consecrated 1 September 1990
5. Vladimir Kotlyarov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1929–2022 consecrated 30 December 1962
6. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
7. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
8. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
9. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
10. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
11. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
12. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
13. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
14. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 4

• 7 June 2015Hilarion Urs Bishop of Făgăraș, b. 1955
• 24 June 2018Timothy Bel Bishop of Sătmar, b. 1974
• 7 March 2021Nestor Dinculeană Bishop of Deva and Hunedoara, b. 1983
• Gherontie Ciupe Bishop of Hunedoara, b. 1966

Sources

Also in: Wikidata