Peter Musteață

Life

Born

29 October 1967

Ordained deacon

1992

Ordained priest

1992

Monastic tonsure

27 June 1992

Made archimandrite

November 1995

Elected bishop

6 October 2005

Consecrated bishop

13 November 2005

Made archbishop

16 May 2021

Sees

1. 13 November 2005 – 6 October 2006

   Bishop of Nisporeni

   Vicar of Chișinău · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 6 October 2006 – 21 August 2007

   Bishop of Ungheni and Nisporeni

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 21 August 2007 – 24 December 2010

   Bishop of Hâncu

   Vicar of Chișinău · Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 24 December 2010 – 16 May 2021

   Bishop of Ungheni and Nisporeni

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 16 May 2021 – present

   Archbishop of Ungheni and Nisporeni

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 13 November 2005 by:

• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Clement Kapalin Metropolitan of Kaluga and Borovsk, b. 1949
• Vladimir Cantarean Metropolitan of Chișinău and Moldova, b. 1952
• Agafangel Savvin Metropolitan of Odessa and Izmail, b. 1938
• Onufrii Berezovskii Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, b. 1944
• Vincent Morar Metropolitan of Tashkent and Uzbekistan, b. 1953
• Paul Lebed Metropolitan of Vyshhorod and Chernobyl, b. 1961
• Justinian Ovchinnikov Archbishop of Elista and Kalmykia, b. 1961
• Anatolii Botnari Archbishop of Cahul and Comrat, b. 1950
• Dorimedont Cecan Bishop of Edineţ and Briceni, 1961–2006
• Alexander Agrikov Metropolitan of Bryansk and Sevsk, b. 1953

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 11 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Peter Musteață Archbishop of Ungheni and Nisporeni consecrated 13 November 2005
2. Alexander Agrikov Metropolitan of Bryansk and Sevsk, b. 1953 consecrated 2 September 2001
3. Herman Swaiko Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1931–2022 consecrated 10 February 1973
4. Silvester Haruns Archbishop of Montréal and Canada, 1914–2000 consecrated 27 April 1952
5. Vladimir Tikhonitskii Metropolitan of Białystok, 1873–1959 consecrated 3 June 1907
6. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
7. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
8. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
9. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
10. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
11. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
12. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 10

• 19 August 2006Aleksii Grokha Metropolitan of Balta and Ananiv, b. 1972
• 11 March 2007Marcel Mihăescu Archbishop of Bălţi and Făleşti, b. 1959
• 18 May 2008Anthony Borovik Former Bishop of Ugolskii, b. 1968
• 13 December 2009Evlogii Patsan Archbishop of Novomoskovsk, b. 1970
• 21 August 2010Panteleimon Shatov Bishop of Vereya, b. 1950
• 22 August 2010Benjamin Likhomanov Bishop of Rybinsk and Romanov-Borisoglebsk, b. 1952
• 26 December 2010Nikodim Vulpe Archbishop of Edineţ and Briceni, b. 1956
• 4 March 2012Ambrose Munteanu Bishop of Bogorodsk, b. 1973
• 29 September 2014Victor Bykov Archbishop of Artsyz, b. 1983
• 4 November 2016Silouan Şalari Bishop of Orhei, b. 1977

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata