Benjamin Goreanu

Life

Born

1975

Monastic tonsure

2007

Ordained deacon

2007

Ordained priest

2008

Made archimandrite

28 November 2010

Consecrated bishop

26 May 2018

Sees

1. 26 May 2018 – present

   Bishop of Southern Bessarabia

   Patriarchate of Romania

Consecration

Consecrated 26 May 2018 by:

• Daniel Ciobotea Patriarch of Romania, Archbishop of Bucharest, Metropolitan of Muntenia and Dobruja, b. 1951
• Peter Păduraru Metropolitan of Bessarabia, b. 1946
• Cassian Crăciun Archbishop of Dunării de Jos (Lower Danube), b. 1955
• Galaction Stângă Bishop of Alexandria and Teleorman, b. 1953
• Anthony Telembici Bishop of Bălţi, b. 1963
• Varlaam Merticariu Bishop of Ploiești, b. 1960
• Ieronim Crețu Bishop of Dacia Felix, b. 1959
• Timothy Aioanei Bishop of Prahova, b. 1966

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. Benjamin Goreanu Bishop of Southern Bessarabia consecrated 26 May 2018
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

• Nichifor Horia Bishop of Botoșani, b. 1967