Joseph Bosakov

Life

Born

6 December 1942

Monastic tonsure

12 April 1970

Ordained deacon

3 May 1970

Ordained priest

27 December 1970

Made archimandrite

21 July 1973

Consecrated bishop

7 December 1980

Made metropolitan

17 April 1986

Sees

1. 7 December 1980 – 1983

   Bishop of Velika

   Patriarchate of Bulgaria

2. 1983 – 17 April 1986

   Bishop of Akron

   Patriarchate of Bulgaria

3. 17 April 1986 – 19 December 1989

   Metropolitan of Akron

   Patriarchate of Bulgaria

4. 19 December 1989 – 2001

   Metropolitan of America and Australia

   Patriarchate of Bulgaria

5. 2001 – present

   Metropolitan of America, Canada and Australia

   Patriarchate of Bulgaria

Consecration

Consecrated 7 December 1980 by:

• Maksim Minkov Metropolitan of Sofia, Patriarch of Bulgaria, 1914–2012

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 8 generations back to Anthimos IV Vamvakis; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Joseph Bosakov Metropolitan of America, Canada and Australia consecrated 7 December 1980
2. Maksim Minkov Metropolitan of Sofia, Patriarch of Bulgaria, 1914–2012 consecrated 30 December 1956
3. Cyril Konstantinov Patriarch of Bulgaria, Metropolitan of Sofia, 1901–1971 consecrated 12 July 1936
4. Neofit Karaabov Metropolitan of Vidin, 1868–1971 consecrated 21 June 1909
5. Basil Mikhailov Metropolitan of Dorostol and Cherven, 1847–1927 consecrated 18 July 1899
6. Constantine V Valiades Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1833–1914 consecrated 30 January 1876
7. Methodios Aronis Metropolitan of Mytilini, d. 1897 consecrated 12 November 1867
8. Panaret Mishaikov Metropolitan of Plovdiv, 1805–1883 consecrated March 1851
9. Anthimos IV Vamvakis Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1788–1878 consecrated October 1825

Bishops he consecrated 3

• 30 November 2010John Stoikov Bishop of Glavinica, 1949–2019
• 18 December 2011Serapheim Dinkov Metropolitan of Nevrokop, b. 1974
• 18 December 2016Gerasim Georgiev Bishop of Melnik, b. 1979

Sources

• wikidata.org

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