Ieronim Crețu

Life

Born

21 November 1959

Ordained deacon

1987

Ordained priest

1987

Made archimandrite

10 April 1994

Consecrated bishop

29 May 2014

Sees

1. 29 May 2014 – 5 July 2022

   Bishop of Sinaia

   Vicar of the Patriarch of Romania · Patriarchate of Romania

2. 5 July 2022 – present

   Bishop of Dacia Felix

   Patriarchate of Romania

Consecration

Consecrated 29 May 2014 by:

• Daniel Ciobotea Patriarch of Romania, Archbishop of Bucharest, Metropolitan of Muntenia and Dobruja, b. 1951
• Irineu Pop Archbishop of Alba Iulia, b. 1953
• Varsanufie Gogescu Archbishop of Râmnic, b. 1968
• Ambrose Parashkevov Metropolitan of Dorostol, 1942–2020
• Tikhon Zaitsev Archbishop of Ruza, b. 1967
• Teodosii Kupichkov Bishop of Devol, 1934–2017
• Ambrose Meleacă Bishop of Giurgiu, b. 1969
• Michael Filimon Bishop, b. 1964
• Varlaam Merticariu Bishop of Ploiești, b. 1960

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 12 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Ieronim Crețu Bishop of Dacia Felix consecrated 29 May 2014
2. Tikhon Zaitsev Archbishop of Ruza, b. 1967 consecrated 26 April 2009
3. Alexander Agrikov Metropolitan of Bryansk and Sevsk, b. 1953 consecrated 2 September 2001
4. Herman Swaiko Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1931–2022 consecrated 10 February 1973
5. Silvester Haruns Archbishop of Montréal and Canada, 1914–2000 consecrated 27 April 1952
6. Vladimir Tikhonitskii Metropolitan of Białystok, 1873–1959 consecrated 3 June 1907
7. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
8. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
9. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
10. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
11. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
12. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
13. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 5

• 30 October 2014Timothy Aioanei Bishop of Prahova, b. 1966
• 7 June 2015Hilarion Urs Bishop of Făgăraș, b. 1955
• 26 May 2018Benjamin Goreanu Bishop of Southern Bessarabia, b. 1975
• 20 July 2023Paisie Teodorescu Bishop of Sinaia, b. 1972
• Gherontie Ciupe Bishop of Hunedoara, b. 1966

Sources

Also in: Wikidata