Teofil Roman

Life

Born

13 May 1971

Ordained deacon

1992

Ordained priest

1992

Monastic tonsure

8 March 1992

Made archimandrite

15 August 2002

Consecrated bishop

15 April 2018

Sees

1. 15 April 2018 – present

   Bishop of Iberia

   Vicar of Spain and Portugal · Patriarchate of Romania

Consecration

Consecrated 15 April 2018 by:

• Andrew Andreicuț Metropolitan of Cluj, b. 1949
• Polycarp Stavropoulos Metropolitan of Italy, b. 1963
• Joseph Pop Metropolitan of Western and Central Europe, b. 1966
• Serapheim Joantă Metropolitan of Germany and Central Europe, b. 1948
• Varsanufie Gogescu Archbishop of Râmnic, b. 1968
• Ignatie Trif Bishop of Huși, b. 1976
• Sofronie Drincec Bishop of Oradea, Bihor and Sălaj, b. 1967
• Justin Hodea Bishop of Maramureș and Sătmar, b. 1961
• Visarion Bălţat Bishop of Tulcea, b. 1959
• Gurie Georgiu Bishop of Deva and Hunedoara, 1968–2021
• Silouan Şpan Bishop of Italy, b. 1970
• Paisie Gheorghe Bishop of Lugoj, b. 1971
• Mark Alric Bishop of Neamț, b. 1958
• Sofian Pătrunjel Bishop of Brașov, b. 1970

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. Teofil Roman Bishop of Iberia consecrated 15 April 2018
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 3

• 1 May 2018Atanasie Rusnac Bishop of Bogdania, b. 1982
• 24 June 2018Timothy Bel Bishop of Sătmar, b. 1974
• 23 February 2020Benedict Vesa Bishop of Bistriţa, b. 1984

Sources

• basilica.ro

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