Gervasii Georgiev

Life

Born

1838

Monastic tonsure

March 1858

Ordained deacon

1859

Ordained priest

1863

Consecrated bishop

28 January 1873

Made metropolitan

2 March 1897

Died

4 April 1919

Sees

1. 28 January 1873 – 1891

   Bishop of Levka

   Vicar of Plovdiv · Patriarchate of Bulgaria

2. 1891 – 1893

   Bishop of Stara Zagora

   Patriarchate of Bulgaria

3. 1893 – 2 March 1897

   Bishop of Stara Zagora

   Patriarchate of Bulgaria

4. 2 March 1897 – 4 April 1919

   Metropolitan of Sliven

   Patriarchate of Bulgaria

Consecration

Consecrated 28 January 1873 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. Gervasii Georgiev Metropolitan of Sliven consecrated 28 January 1873
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 1

• 25 November 1917Hilarion Arabadzhiev Metropolitan of Sliven, 1870–1939

Sources

• wikidata.org

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