Timothy Aioanei

Life

Born

13 November 1966

Monastic tonsure

1 February 1989

Ordained deacon

8 June 1989

Ordained priest

14 October 1993

Made archimandrite

24 March 2002

Consecrated bishop

30 October 2014

Sees

1. 30 October 2014 – present

   Bishop of Prahova

   Vicar of Bucharest · Patriarchate of Romania

Consecration

Consecrated 30 October 2014 by:

• Daniel Ciobotea Patriarch of Romania, Archbishop of Bucharest, Metropolitan of Muntenia and Dobruja, b. 1951
• Cassian Crăciun Archbishop of Dunării de Jos (Lower Danube), b. 1955
• Cornelius Onilă Bishop of Huși, b. 1966
• Ambrose Meleacă Bishop of Giurgiu, b. 1969
• Visarion Bălţat Bishop of Tulcea, b. 1959
• Siluan Manuilă Bishop of Hungary, b. 1972
• Macarie Drăgoi Bishop of Northern Europe, b. 1977
• Michael Filimon Bishop, b. 1964
• Emilian Nica Bishop of Crișana, b. 1972
• Varlaam Merticariu Bishop of Ploiești, b. 1960
• Ignatie Trif Bishop of Huși, b. 1976
• Ieronim Crețu Bishop of Dacia Felix, b. 1959

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. Timothy Aioanei Bishop of Prahova consecrated 30 October 2014
2. Siluan Manuilă Bishop of Hungary, b. 1972 consecrated 8 July 2007
3. Hilarion Alfeyev Metropolitan of Budapest and Hungary, b. 1966 consecrated 14 January 2002
4. Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003 consecrated 23 May 1963
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 3

• 23 July 2017Damaschin Luchian Bishop of Dorna, b. 1981
• 26 May 2018Benjamin Goreanu Bishop of Southern Bessarabia, b. 1975
• 20 July 2023Paisie Teodorescu Bishop of Sinaia, b. 1972