Sofronie Drincec

Life

Born

3 November 1967

Monastic tonsure

1995

Consecrated bishop

1999

Sees

1. 1999 – 2007

   Bishop of Gyula

   Patriarchate of Romania

2. 2007 – present

   Bishop of Oradea, Bihor and Sălaj

   Patriarchate of Romania

Consecration

Consecrated 1999 by:

• Teoctist Arăpaşu Patriarch of Romania, Archbishop of Bucharest, Metropolitan of Muntenia and Dobruja, 1915–2007
• Nicolae Corneanu Metropolitan of Banat, 1923–2014
• Peter Păduraru Metropolitan of Bessarabia, b. 1946
• Serapheim Joantă Metropolitan of Germany and Central Europe, b. 1948
• Joseph Pop Metropolitan of Western and Central Europe, b. 1966
• Andrew Andreicuț Metropolitan of Cluj, b. 1949
• Gherasim Cristea Archbishop of Râmnic and Argeș, 1914–2014
• Calinic Argatu Archbishop of Argeș and Muscel, b. 1944
• Ioachim Mareş Bishop of Huși, 1927–2009
• John Mihălțan Bishop of Oradea, Bihor and Sălaj, 1926–2008
• Timothy Seviciu Archbishop of Arad, Ienopolis and Hălmagiu, b. 1936
• Laurence Streza Metropolitan of Transylvania, b. 1947
• Teofan Savu Metropolitan of Moldova and Bukovina, b. 1959
• Visarion Bălţat Bishop of Tulcea, b. 1959
• Basil Flueraș Bishop, b. 1948
• Gherasim Cucoşel Bishop of Putna, 1924–2004
• Justin Hodea Bishop of Maramureș and Sătmar, b. 1961

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. Sofronie Drincec Bishop of Oradea, Bihor and Sălaj consecrated 1999
2. Peter Păduraru Metropolitan of Bessarabia, b. 1946 consecrated 1 September 1990
3. Vladimir Kotlyarov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1929–2022 consecrated 30 December 1962
4. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
5. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
6. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
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 8

• 15 October 2000Ambrose Meleacă Bishop of Giurgiu, b. 1969
• 19 February 2006Paisie Gheorghe Bishop of Lugoj, b. 1971
• 8 July 2007Siluan Manuilă Bishop of Hungary, b. 1972
• 20 December 2009Varlaam Merticariu Bishop of Ploiești, b. 1960
• 7 June 2015Hilarion Urs Bishop of Făgăraș, b. 1955
• 15 April 2018Teofil Roman Bishop of Iberia, b. 1971
• 24 June 2018Timothy Bel Bishop of Sătmar, b. 1974
• 7 March 2021Nestor Dinculeană Bishop of Deva and Hunedoara, b. 1983

Sources

Also in: Wikidata