Gerasim Georgiev

Life

Born

2 November 1979

Monastic tonsure

9 December 2009

Made archimandrite

17 September 2014

Consecrated bishop

18 December 2016

Sees

1. 18 December 2016 – present

   Bishop of Melnik

   Vicar of the Patriarch of Bulgaria · Patriarchate of Bulgaria

Consecration

Consecrated 18 December 2016 by:

• Neofit Dimitrov Patriarch of Bulgaria, Metropolitan of Sofia, b. 1945
• Joseph Bosakov Metropolitan of America, Canada and Australia, b. 1942
• Gregory Stefanov Metropolitan of Veliko Turnovo, b. 1950
• Gabriel Dinev Metropolitan of Lovech, b. 1950
• Nicholas Sevastiyanov Metropolitan of Plovdiv, b. 1969
• John Ivanov Metropolitan of Varna and Veliki Preslav, b. 1969
• Serapheim Dinkov Metropolitan of Nevrokop, b. 1974
• Naum Dimitrov Metropolitan of Ruse (Cherven), b. 1968
• Evlogii Stamboldzhiev Bishop of Adrianopolis, b. 1954
• Gregory Tsvetkov Metropolitan of Vratsa, b. 1970

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 9 generations back to Anthimos IV Vamvakis; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Gerasim Georgiev Bishop of Melnik consecrated 18 December 2016
2. Gregory Tsvetkov Metropolitan of Vratsa, b. 1970 consecrated 29 October 2010
3. Constantine Petrov Bishop of Markianopol, 1941–2017 consecrated 27 August 1997
4. Pimen Enev Metropolitan of Nevrokop, 1906–1999 consecrated 21 December 1947
5. Stephen I Shokov Metropolitan of Sofia, 1878–1957 consecrated 1 April 1921
6. Basil Mikhailov Metropolitan of Dorostol and Cherven, 1847–1927 consecrated 18 July 1899
7. Constantine V Valiades Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1833–1914 consecrated 30 January 1876
8. Methodios Aronis Metropolitan of Mytilini, d. 1897 consecrated 12 November 1867
9. Panaret Mishaikov Metropolitan of Plovdiv, 1805–1883 consecrated March 1851
10. Anthimos IV Vamvakis Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1788–1878 consecrated October 1825

Bishops he consecrated 5

• 20 December 2016Iakov Donchev Bishop of Constantia, b. 1971
• 21 February 2021Visarion Grivov Bishop of Smolyan, b. 1971
• 26 September 2021Mikhail Dilovski Bishop of Constantia, b. 1981
• 19 October 2021Pakhomii Lozanov Bishop of Braničevo, b. 1978
• 26 June 2022Makarii Chakarov Bishop of Glavinica, b. 1981

Sources

Also in: Wikidata