Nichifor Horia

Life

Born

14 November 1967

Monastic tonsure

23 December 1995

Ordained priest

2 February 1996

Made hegumen

2001

Made archimandrite

2008

Sees

1. 7 March 2021 – present

   Bishop of Botoșani

   Vicar of Iași · Patriarchate of Romania

Consecration

Consecrated by:

• Teofan Savu Metropolitan of Moldova and Bukovina, b. 1959
• Peter Păduraru Metropolitan of Bessarabia, b. 1946
• Calinic Dumitriu Bishop of Botoșani, b. 1957
• Ioachim Giosanu Archbishop of Roman and Bacău, b. 1954
• Ignatie Trif Bishop of Huși, b. 1976
• Anthony Telembici Bishop of Bălţi, b. 1963
• Benjamin Goreanu Bishop of Southern Bessarabia, b. 1975
• Damaschin Luchian Bishop of Dorna, b. 1981

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 11 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

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

Bishops he consecrated 1

• Gherontie Ciupe Bishop of Hunedoara, b. 1966