Anatolii Botnari

Life

Born

3 May 1950

Ordained deacon

3 March 1974

Ordained priest

31 March 1974

Monastic tonsure

28 August 1998

Made archimandrite

30 August 1998

Consecrated bishop

12 September 1998

Made archbishop

16 May 2021

Sees

1. 12 September 1998 – 5 October 1999

   Bishop of Cahul and Căușeni

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 5 October 1999 – 7 October 2004

   Bishop of Cahul and Lăpușna

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 7 October 2004 – 16 May 2021

   Bishop of Cahul and Comrat

   Patriarchate of Moscow

4. 16 May 2021 – present

   Archbishop of Cahul and Comrat

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 12 September 1998 by:

• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003
• Vladimir Cantarean Metropolitan of Chișinău and Moldova, b. 1952
• Sergii Fomin Metropolitan of Voronezh and Liski, b. 1949
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Tikhon Emelyanov Metropolitan of Vladimir and Suzdal, b. 1948
• Aleksii Frolov Archbishop of Kostroma and Halych, 1947–2013
• Justinian Ovchinnikov Archbishop of Elista and Kalmykia, b. 1961

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. Anatolii Botnari Archbishop of Cahul and Comrat consecrated 12 September 1998
2. Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003 consecrated 23 May 1963
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 7

• 13 November 2005Peter Musteață Archbishop of Ungheni and Nisporeni, b. 1967
• 11 March 2007Marcel Mihăescu Archbishop of Bălţi and Făleşti, b. 1959
• 21 August 2010Panteleimon Shatov Bishop of Vereya, b. 1950
• 22 August 2010Benjamin Likhomanov Bishop of Rybinsk and Romanov-Borisoglebsk, b. 1952
• 26 December 2010Nikodim Vulpe Archbishop of Edineţ and Briceni, b. 1956
• 8 March 2015John Moșneguțu Archbishop of Soroca and Drochia, b. 1979
• 4 November 2016Silouan Şalari Bishop of Orhei, b. 1977

Sources

Also in: Wikidata