Calinic Argatu

Life

Born

6 June 1944

Monastic tonsure

31 December 1972

Consecrated bishop

17 November 1985

Made archbishop

26 September 2009

Sees

1. 17 November 1985 – 1990

   Bishop of Râmnic

   Patriarchate of Romania

2. 1990 – 26 September 2009

   Bishop of Argeș

   Patriarchate of Romania

3. 26 September 2009 – present

   Archbishop of Argeș and Muscel

   Patriarchate of Romania

Consecration

Consecrated 17 November 1985 by:

• Nestor Vornicescu Metropolitan of Oltenia, 1927–2000
• Gherasim Cristea Archbishop of Râmnic and Argeș, 1914–2014

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 1 generation back to Gherasim Cristea; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Calinic Argatu Archbishop of Argeș and Muscel consecrated 17 November 1985
2. Gherasim Cristea Archbishop of Râmnic and Argeș, 1914–2014 consecrated 27 December 1970

Bishops he consecrated 9

• 7 February 1993Bartholomew Anania Metropolitan of Cluj, Alba, Crișana and Maramureș, 1921–2011
• 22 March 1994Teodosie Petrescu Archbishop of Tomis, b. 1955
• 17 April 1994Justin Hodea Bishop of Maramureș and Sătmar, b. 1961
• 9 July 1994John Selejan Archbishop of Timișoara and Metropolitan of Banat, b. 1951
• 15 August 1998Basil Flueraș Bishop, b. 1948
• 1999Sofronie Drincec Bishop of Oradea, Bihor and Sălaj, b. 1967
• 8 July 2007Siluan Manuilă Bishop of Hungary, b. 1972
• 20 April 2008Michael Filimon Bishop, b. 1964
• 20 December 2009Varlaam Merticariu Bishop of Ploiești, b. 1960

Sources

Paul Şerpe (d. 1978) removed from the consecrators of 1985-11-17; no source found names the third consecrator

• ro.wikipedia.org
• basilica.ro

Also in: Wikidata