Ambrose Meleacă

Life

Born

20 April 1969

Monastic tonsure

1990

Ordained deacon

1992

Ordained priest

1992

Consecrated bishop

15 October 2000

Sees

1. 15 October 2000 – 2006

   Bishop of Sinaia

   Patriarchate of Romania

2. 2006 – present

   Bishop of Giurgiu

   Patriarchate of Romania

Consecration

Consecrated 15 October 2000 by:

• Teoctist Arăpaşu Patriarch of Romania, Archbishop of Bucharest, Metropolitan of Muntenia and Dobruja, 1915–2007
• Teofan Savu Metropolitan of Moldova and Bukovina, b. 1959
• Galaction Stângă Bishop of Alexandria and Teleorman, b. 1953
• Sofronie Drincec Bishop of Oradea, Bihor and Sălaj, b. 1967
• Teodosie Petrescu Archbishop of Tomis, b. 1955
• Irineu Popa Metropolitan of Oltenia, b. 1957

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 12 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Ambrose Meleacă Bishop of Giurgiu consecrated 15 October 2000
2. Sofronie Drincec Bishop of Oradea, Bihor and Sălaj, b. 1967 consecrated 1999
3. Peter Păduraru Metropolitan of Bessarabia, b. 1946 consecrated 1 September 1990
4. Vladimir Kotlyarov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1929–2022 consecrated 30 December 1962
5. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
6. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
7. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
8. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
9. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
10. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
11. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
12. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
13. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 4

• 25 March 2001Sebastian Bishop of Slatina and Romanaţi, b. 1966
• 20 December 2009Varlaam Merticariu Bishop of Ploiești, b. 1960
• 29 May 2014Ieronim Crețu Bishop of Dacia Felix, b. 1959
• 30 October 2014Timothy Aioanei Bishop of Prahova, b. 1966

Sources

Also in: Wikidata