Ambrose Parashkevov

Life

Born

9 June 1942

Monastic tonsure

13 August 1983

Ordained deacon

19 October 1983

Ordained priest

15 August 1984

Made archimandrite

29 June 1989

Consecrated bishop

3 April 1994

Made metropolitan

3 April 1994 · Alternative Synod (Bulgaria)

Made metropolitan

30 January 2010 · Patriarchate of Bulgaria

Died

18 August 2020

Sees

1. 3 April 1994 – 1998

   Metropolitan of Vidin

   Alternative Synod (Bulgaria)

2. 1998 – 2004

   Bishop of Braničevo

   Vicar of Vidin · Patriarchate of Bulgaria

3. 2004 – 30 January 2010

   Bishop of Braničevo

   Vicar of Vratsa · Patriarchate of Bulgaria

4. 30 January 2010 – 18 August 2020

   Metropolitan of Dorostol

   Patriarchate of Bulgaria

5. 2013

   Locum tenens of Varna and Veliki Preslav

   Patriarchate of Bulgaria

Consecration

Consecrated 3 April 1994 by:

• Pimen Enev Metropolitan of Nevrokop, 1906–1999

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 7 generations back to Anthimos IV Vamvakis; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Ambrose Parashkevov Metropolitan of Dorostol consecrated 3 April 1994
2. Pimen Enev Metropolitan of Nevrokop, 1906–1999 consecrated 21 December 1947
3. Stephen I Shokov Metropolitan of Sofia, 1878–1957 consecrated 1 April 1921
4. Basil Mikhailov Metropolitan of Dorostol and Cherven, 1847–1927 consecrated 18 July 1899
5. Constantine V Valiades Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1833–1914 consecrated 30 January 1876
6. Methodios Aronis Metropolitan of Mytilini, d. 1897 consecrated 12 November 1867
7. Panaret Mishaikov Metropolitan of Plovdiv, 1805–1883 consecrated March 1851
8. Anthimos IV Vamvakis Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1788–1878 consecrated October 1825

Bishops he consecrated 6

• 3 March 2008Cyprian Kazandzhiev Bishop of Troyan, b. 1976
• 29 October 2010Gregory Tsvetkov Metropolitan of Vratsa, b. 1970
• 30 November 2010John Stoikov Bishop of Glavinica, 1949–2019
• 18 December 2011Serapheim Dinkov Metropolitan of Nevrokop, b. 1974
• 29 May 2014Ieronim Crețu Bishop of Dacia Felix, b. 1959
• 1 October 2014Hierotheos Kosakov Bishop of Agathopolis, b. 1977

Sources

Also in: Wikidata