Joseph I Yovchev

Life

Born

5 May 1840

Consecrated bishop

1876

Died

1915

Sees

1. 1876 – 1877

   Metropolitan of Lovech

   Patriarchate of Bulgaria

2. 1877 – 1915

   Exarch of Bulgaria

   Patriarchate of Bulgaria

Consecration

Consecrated 1876 by:

• Antim I Chalakov Former Exarch of Exarchate of Bulgaria, 1816–1888

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 2 generations back to Joachim II Kokkodes; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Joseph I Yovchev Exarch of Bulgaria consecrated 1876
2. Antim I Chalakov Former Exarch of Exarchate of Bulgaria, 1816–1888
3. Joachim II Kokkodes Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1802–1878 consecrated December 1827

Bishops he consecrated 3

• 6 May 1894Avksentii Goleminov Metropolitan, 1850–1919
• 21 June 1909Neofit Karaabov Metropolitan of Vidin, 1868–1971
• 5 August 1910Boris Georgiev Metropolitan of Ohrid and Prespa, 1875–1938

Sources

• wikidata.org

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