Maksim Pelov

Life

Born

8 March 1882

Monastic tonsure

21 January 1902

Ordained deacon

25 March 1902

Ordained priest

25 December 1914

Made archimandrite

1 January 1915

Consecrated bishop

20 April 1924

Died

13 February 1948

Sees

1. 20 April 1924 – 13 February 1948

   Bishop of Branitsa

   Bulgarian Exarchate

Consecration

Consecrated 20 April 1924 by:

• Maksim Pelov Metropolitan of Plovdiv, 1850–1938
• Paul Popkonstantinov Metropolitan of Stara Zagora, 1882–1940
• Chariton Vulchev-Adzhamovski Bishop of Dragovita, 1880–1958

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 Joachim II Kokkodes; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Maksim Pelov Bishop of Branitsa consecrated 20 April 1924
2. Chariton Vulchev-Adzhamovski Bishop of Dragovita, 1880–1958 consecrated 14 January 1924
3. Boris Georgiev Metropolitan of Ohrid and Prespa, 1875–1938 consecrated 5 August 1910
4. Joseph I Yovchev Exarch of Bulgaria, 1840–1915 consecrated 1876
5. Antim I Chalakov Former Exarch of Exarchate of Bulgaria, 1816–1888
6. Joachim II Kokkodes Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1802–1878 consecrated December 1827

Bishops he consecrated 1

• 6 December 1925Panaret Naumov Bishop of Bregalnica, 1878–1944

Sources

Also in: Wikidata