Varsanufie Gogescu

Life

Born

24 January 1968

Monastic tonsure

15 April 1997

Ordained deacon

7 June 1998

Ordained priest

8 June 1998

Made archimandrite

29 September 2001

Consecrated bishop

30 September 2001

Made archbishop

8 June 2014

Sees

1. 30 September 2001 – 8 June 2014

   Bishop of Prahova

   Vicar of the Archdiocese of Bucharest · Patriarchate of Romania

2. 8 June 2014 – present

   Archbishop of Râmnic

   Patriarchate of Romania

Consecration

Consecrated 30 September 2001 by:

• Teoctist Arăpaşu Patriarch of Romania, Archbishop of Bucharest, Metropolitan of Muntenia and Dobruja, 1915–2007

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 5 generations back to Pimen Georgescu; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Varsanufie Gogescu Archbishop of Râmnic consecrated 30 September 2001
2. Teoctist Arăpaşu Patriarch of Romania, Archbishop of Bucharest, Metropolitan of Muntenia and Dobruja, 1915–2007 consecrated 5 March 1950
3. Justinian Marina Patriarch of Romania, Archbishop of Bucharest, Metropolitan of Muntenia and Dobruja, 1901–1977 consecrated 12 August 1945
4. Valerian Moglan Bishop of Botoșani, 1878–1949 consecrated 25 March 1938
5. Nicodim Munteanu Patriarch of Romania, Archbishop of Bucharest, Metropolitan of Muntenia and Dobruja, 1864–1948 consecrated 24 May 1909
6. Pimen Georgescu Archbishop of Iași and Metropolitan of Moldova, 1853–1934 consecrated 2 February 1895

Bishops he consecrated 5

• 20 April 2008Michael Filimon Bishop, b. 1964
• 20 December 2009Varlaam Merticariu Bishop of Ploiești, b. 1960
• 24 May 2014Anthony Telembici Bishop of Bălţi, b. 1963
• 29 May 2014Ieronim Crețu Bishop of Dacia Felix, b. 1959
• 15 April 2018Teofil Roman Bishop of Iberia, b. 1971

Sources

• wikidata.org

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