Gherontie Ciupe

Life

Born

1 June 1966

Monastic tonsure

24 June 1990

Ordained deacon

14 September 1990

Ordained priest

19 January 1992

Made archimandrite

23 April 2000

Elected bishop

9 February 2023

Sees

1. 9 February 2023 – present

   Bishop of Hunedoara

   Vicar of Deva · Patriarchate of Romania

Consecration

Consecrated by:

• Laurence Streza Metropolitan of Transylvania, b. 1947
• Teodosie Petrescu Archbishop of Tomis, b. 1955
• Irineu Pop Archbishop of Alba Iulia, b. 1953
• Ignatie Trif Bishop of Huși, b. 1976
• Lucian Mic Bishop of Caransebeș, b. 1970
• Nicodim Nicolăescu Bishop of Severin and Strehaia, b. 1962
• Andrew Moldovan Bishop of Covasna and Harghita, b. 1967
• Galaction Stângă Bishop of Alexandria and Teleorman, b. 1953
• Sebastian Bishop of Slatina and Romanaţi, b. 1966
• Nestor Dinculeană Bishop of Deva and Hunedoara, b. 1983
• Ieronim Crețu Bishop of Dacia Felix, b. 1959
• Nichifor Horia Bishop of Botoșani, b. 1967
• Hilarion Urs Bishop of Făgăraș, b. 1955
• Benedict Vesa Bishop of Bistriţa, b. 1984
• Paisie Gheorghe Bishop of Lugoj, b. 1971
• Damaschin Luchian Bishop of Dorna, b. 1981
• Emilian Nica Bishop of Crișana, b. 1972
• Timothy Bel Bishop of Sătmar, b. 1974

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. Gherontie Ciupe Bishop of Hunedoara
2. Nichifor Horia Bishop of Botoșani, b. 1967
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