Sofian Pătrunjel

Life

Born

22 July 1970

Monastic tonsure

23 April 1993

Ordained deacon

23 April 1993

Ordained priest

30 May 1993

Consecrated bishop

11 May 2003

Sees

1. 11 May 2003 – present

   Bishop of Brașov

   Vicar of Germany and Central Europe · Patriarchate of Romania

Consecration

Consecrated 11 May 2003 by:

• Teoctist Arăpaşu Patriarch of Romania, Archbishop of Bucharest, Metropolitan of Muntenia and Dobruja, 1915–2007
• Augustine Lambardakis Metropolitan of Germany, b. 1938
• Symeon Kostadinov Former Metropolitan of Western and Central Europe, 1926–2016
• Daniel Ciobotea Patriarch of Romania, Archbishop of Bucharest, Metropolitan of Muntenia and Dobruja, b. 1951
• Teofan Savu Metropolitan of Moldova and Bukovina, b. 1959
• Serapheim Joantă Metropolitan of Germany and Central Europe, b. 1948
• Joseph Pop Metropolitan of Western and Central Europe, b. 1966
• Andrew Andreicuț Metropolitan of Cluj, b. 1949
• Nathaniel Popp Archbishop of Detroit and the Romanian Episcopate, b. 1940
• Feofan Galinskii Archbishop of Berlin and Germany, 1954–2017
• Christopher Pulec Metropolitan of Prague and All the Czech Lands and Slovakia, b. 1953
• Gherasim Cristea Archbishop of Râmnic and Argeș, 1914–2014
• Constantine Đokić Bishop of Central Europe, b. 1946

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. Sofian Pătrunjel Bishop of Brașov consecrated 11 May 2003
2. Nathaniel Popp Archbishop of Detroit and the Romanian Episcopate, b. 1940 consecrated 15 November 1980
3. Cyril Yonchev Archbishop of Pittsburgh, Western Pennsylvania and the Bulgarian Diocese, 1920–2007 consecrated 9 August 1964
4. John Maximovich Archbishop of San Francisco and Western America, 1896–1966 consecrated 1934
5. Anthony Khrapovitsky Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1863–1936 consecrated 7 September 1897
6. Arsenii Bryantsev Archbishop of Kharkiv and Okhtyrka, 1839–1914 consecrated 17 May 1882
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 3

• 7 May 2005Mark Alric Bishop of Neamț, b. 1958
• 25 May 2008Timothy Lauran Bishop of Spain and Portugal, b. 1975
• 15 April 2018Teofil Roman Bishop of Iberia, b. 1971

Sources

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