Nifon Mihăiţă

Life

Born

5 January 1944

Monastic tonsure

1981

Made archimandrite

1981

Consecrated bishop

1986

Made archbishop

1999

Made metropolitan

2008

Sees

1. 1986 – 1994

   Vicar Bishop

   Patriarchate of Romania

2. 1994 – 1999

   Bishop of Slobozia and Călărași

   Patriarchate of Romania

3. 1999 – 2008

   Archbishop of Târgoviște

   Patriarchate of Romania

4. 2008 – present

   Metropolitan of Târgoviște

   Patriarchate of Romania

Consecration

Consecrated 1986 by:

• Justin Moisescu Patriarch of Romania, Archbishop of Bucharest, Metropolitan of Muntenia and Dobruja, 1910–1986
• Basil Costin Archbishop of Târgoviște, 1938–1999
• Roman Stanciu Bishop of Ialomiţa, 1921–1994

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 4 generations back to Pimen Georgescu; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Nifon Mihăiţă Metropolitan of Târgoviște consecrated 1986
2. Justin Moisescu Patriarch of Romania, Archbishop of Bucharest, Metropolitan of Muntenia and Dobruja, 1910–1986 consecrated 15 March 1956
3. Nicholas Colan Archbishop of Sibiu and Metropolitan of Transylvania, 1893–1967 consecrated 31 May 1936
4. Nicodim Munteanu Patriarch of Romania, Archbishop of Bucharest, Metropolitan of Muntenia and Dobruja, 1864–1948 consecrated 24 May 1909
5. Pimen Georgescu Archbishop of Iași and Metropolitan of Moldova, 1853–1934 consecrated 2 February 1895

Bishops he consecrated 6

• 2 February 1994Vincent Grifoni Bishop of Slobozia and Călărași, b. 1954
• 22 March 1994Teodosie Petrescu Archbishop of Tomis, b. 1955
• 25 March 2001Sebastian Bishop of Slatina and Romanaţi, b. 1966
• 20 April 2008Michael Filimon Bishop, b. 1964
• 2 May 2008Macarie Drăgoi Bishop of Northern Europe, b. 1977
• 20 December 2009Varlaam Merticariu Bishop of Ploiești, b. 1960