Vincent Morar

Life

Born

4 October 1953

Monastic tonsure

1981

Ordained deacon

1981

Ordained priest

January 1982

Made archimandrite

28 August 1990

Consecrated bishop

2 September 1990

Made archbishop

19 February 1999

Made metropolitan

4 August 2011

Sees

1. 2 September 1990 – 1995

   Bishop of Bender

   Vicar of Chișinău · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 1995 – 19 February 1999

   Bishop of Abakan and Kyzyl

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 19 February 1999 – July 1999

   Archbishop of Abakan and Kyzyl

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. July 1999 – 27 July 2011

   Archbishop of Ekaterinburg and Verkhoturye

   Patriarchate of Moscow

5. 27 July 2011 – 4 August 2011

   Archbishop of Tashkent and Uzbekistan

   Patriarchate of Moscow

6. 4 August 2011 – present

   Metropolitan of Tashkent and Uzbekistan

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 2 September 1990 by:

• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• Daniel Ciobotea Patriarch of Romania, Archbishop of Bucharest, Metropolitan of Muntenia and Dobruja, b. 1951
• Vladimir Sabodan Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, 1935–2014
• Leontii Gudimov Metropolitan of Donetsk and Slovyansk, 1928–1992
• Vladimir Cantarean Metropolitan of Chișinău and Moldova, b. 1952
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Peter Păduraru Metropolitan of Bessarabia, b. 1946

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 10 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Vincent Morar Metropolitan of Tashkent and Uzbekistan consecrated 2 September 1990
2. Leontii Gudimov Metropolitan of Donetsk and Slovyansk, 1928–1992 consecrated 14 January 1962
3. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
4. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
5. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
6. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
7. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
8. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
9. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
10. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
11. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 14

• 29 July 1991Ierofei Sobolev Bishop of Balakhna, 1936–2001
• 3 April 1993Michael Raskovalov Bishop of Kurgan and Shadrinsk, 1953–2008
• 4 April 1993John Popov Metropolitan of Belgorod and Staryi Oskol, b. 1960
• 3 September 1995Mark Tuzhikov Metropolitan of Vyatka and Sloboda, b. 1961
• 14 April 2002Irinarkh Grezin Bishop of Ramenskoye, 1951–2024
• 13 November 2005Peter Musteață Archbishop of Ungheni and Nisporeni, b. 1967
• 23 January 2011Tikhon Dorovskikh Metropolitan of Oryol and Bolkhov, b. 1959
• 4 December 2011Feodosii Gazhu Bishop of Isilkul and Russkaya Polyana, b. 1970
• 4 March 2012Ambrose Munteanu Bishop of Bogorodsk, b. 1973
• 21 July 2012Savvatii Zagrebelnyi Bishop of Bishkek and Kyrgyzstan, b. 1967
• 1 August 2012Pitirim Tvorogov Bishop of Dushanbe and Tajikistan, b. 1967
• 12 July 2015Nicholas Krivenko Bishop of Severobaikalsk and Sosnovo-Ozerskoye, b. 1971
• 3 January 2017Vincent Bryleyev Bishop of Tara and Tyukalinsk, b. 1979
• 1 April 2018Aleksii Orlov Metropolitan of Chelyabinsk and Miass, b. 1974