Damaschin Luchian

Life

Born

24 June 1981

Monastic tonsure

19 July 2004

Ordained deacon

25 March 2006

Ordained priest

28 April 2006

Made archimandrite

25 March 2012

Consecrated bishop

23 July 2017

Sees

1. 23 July 2017 – present

   Bishop of Dorna

   Vicar of Suceava and Rădăuți · Patriarchate of Romania

Consecration

Consecrated 23 July 2017 by:

• Teofan Savu Metropolitan of Moldova and Bukovina, b. 1959
• Joseph Pop Metropolitan of Western and Central Europe, b. 1966
• Teodosie Petrescu Archbishop of Tomis, b. 1955
• Pimen Zainea Archbishop of Suceava and Rădăuți, 1929–2020
• Ioachim Giosanu Archbishop of Roman and Bacău, b. 1954
• Nicodim Nicolăescu Bishop of Severin and Strehaia, b. 1962
• Gurie Georgiu Bishop of Deva and Hunedoara, 1968–2021
• Macarie Drăgoi Bishop of Northern Europe, b. 1977
• Timothy Aioanei Bishop of Prahova, b. 1966

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. Damaschin Luchian Bishop of Dorna consecrated 23 July 2017
2. Joseph Pop Metropolitan of Western and Central Europe, b. 1966 consecrated 15 March 1998
3. Nathaniel Popp Archbishop of Detroit and the Romanian Episcopate, b. 1940 consecrated 15 November 1980
4. Cyril Yonchev Archbishop of Pittsburgh, Western Pennsylvania and the Bulgarian Diocese, 1920–2007 consecrated 9 August 1964
5. John Maximovich Archbishop of San Francisco and Western America, 1896–1966 consecrated 1934
6. Anthony Khrapovitsky Metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych, 1863–1936 consecrated 7 September 1897
7. Arsenii Bryantsev Archbishop of Kharkiv and Okhtyrka, 1839–1914 consecrated 17 May 1882
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 2

• Gherontie Ciupe Bishop of Hunedoara, b. 1966
• Nichifor Horia Bishop of Botoșani, b. 1967

Sources

Also in: Wikidata