Daniel Nikolov

Life

Born

2 March 1972

Monastic tonsure

7 August 1999

Ordained deacon

7 August 1999

Ordained priest

27 November 2004

Made archimandrite

1 June 2006

Consecrated bishop

20 January 2008

Made metropolitan

4 February 2018

Sees

1. 20 January 2008 – 2011

   Bishop of Dragovita

   Vicar of Nevrokop · Patriarchate of Bulgaria

2. 2011 – 4 February 2018

   Bishop of Dragovita

   Vicar of America, Canada and Australia · Patriarchate of Bulgaria

3. 4 February 2018 – present

   Metropolitan of Vidin

   Patriarchate of Bulgaria

Consecration

Consecrated 20 January 2008 by:

• Maksim Minkov Metropolitan of Sofia, Patriarch of Bulgaria, 1914–2012
• Yoanikii Nedelchev Metropolitan of Sliven, b. 1939
• Dometian Topuzliev Metropolitan of Vidin, 1932–2017
• Cyril Kovachev Metropolitan of Varna and Veliki Preslav, 1954–2013
• Gregory Stefanov Metropolitan of Veliko Turnovo, b. 1950
• Neofit Dimitrov Patriarch of Bulgaria, Metropolitan of Sofia, b. 1945
• Nathaniel Kalaidzhiev Metropolitan of Nevrokop, 1952–2013
• Gabriel Dinev Metropolitan of Lovech, b. 1950
• Evlogii Stamboldzhiev Bishop of Adrianopolis, b. 1954

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 8 generations back to Anthimos IV Vamvakis; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Daniel Nikolov Metropolitan of Vidin consecrated 20 January 2008
2. Maksim Minkov Metropolitan of Sofia, Patriarch of Bulgaria, 1914–2012 consecrated 30 December 1956
3. Cyril Konstantinov Patriarch of Bulgaria, Metropolitan of Sofia, 1901–1971 consecrated 12 July 1936
4. Neofit Karaabov Metropolitan of Vidin, 1868–1971 consecrated 21 June 1909
5. Basil Mikhailov Metropolitan of Dorostol and Cherven, 1847–1927 consecrated 18 July 1899
6. Constantine V Valiades Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1833–1914 consecrated 30 January 1876
7. Methodios Aronis Metropolitan of Mytilini, d. 1897 consecrated 12 November 1867
8. Panaret Mishaikov Metropolitan of Plovdiv, 1805–1883 consecrated March 1851
9. Anthimos IV Vamvakis Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1788–1878 consecrated October 1825

Bishops he consecrated 4

• 29 October 2010Gregory Tsvetkov Metropolitan of Vratsa, b. 1970
• 21 February 2021Visarion Grivov Bishop of Smolyan, b. 1971
• 26 September 2021Mikhail Dilovski Bishop of Constantia, b. 1981
• 19 October 2021Pakhomii Lozanov Bishop of Braničevo, b. 1978

Sources

Also in: Wikidata