Marcel Mihăescu

Life

Born

18 August 1959

Ordained deacon

16 September 1985

Monastic tonsure

3 January 1988

Ordained priest

6 January 1988

Made archimandrite

20 November 1988

Elected bishop

6 October 2006

Consecrated bishop

11 March 2007

Made archbishop

16 May 2021

Sees

1. 11 March 2007 – 16 May 2021

   Bishop of Bălţi and Făleşti

   Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 16 May 2021 – present

   Archbishop of Bălţi and Făleşti

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 11 March 2007 by:

• Aleksii II Ridiger Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1929–2008
• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Clement Kapalin Metropolitan of Kaluga and Borovsk, b. 1949
• Vladimir Cantarean Metropolitan of Chișinău and Moldova, b. 1952
• Sergii Fomin Metropolitan of Voronezh and Liski, b. 1949
• Anatolii Kuznetsov Archbishop of Kerch, 1930–2024
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Cyril Nakonechnii Metropolitan of Kazan and Tatarstan, b. 1961
• Justinian Ovchinnikov Archbishop of Elista and Kalmykia, b. 1961
• Anatolii Botnari Archbishop of Cahul and Comrat, b. 1950
• Alexander Agrikov Metropolitan of Bryansk and Sevsk, b. 1953
• Ambrose Ermakov Metropolitan of Tver and Kashin, b. 1970
• Peter Musteață Archbishop of Ungheni and Nisporeni, b. 1967

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. Marcel Mihăescu Archbishop of Bălţi and Făleşti consecrated 11 March 2007
2. Alexander Agrikov Metropolitan of Bryansk and Sevsk, b. 1953 consecrated 2 September 2001
3. Herman Swaiko Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1931–2022 consecrated 10 February 1973
4. Silvester Haruns Archbishop of Montréal and Canada, 1914–2000 consecrated 27 April 1952
5. Vladimir Tikhonitskii Metropolitan of Białystok, 1873–1959 consecrated 3 June 1907
6. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
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 6

• 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
• 1 September 2011Nicholas Dutka Bishop of Nakhodka and Preobrazhensk, b. 1966
• 3 September 2011Serapheim Kuzminov Bishop of Belyov and Aleksin, b. 1977
• 2 May 2012Nil Sychev Bishop of Murom and Vyazniki, b. 1964

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru