John Moșneguțu

Life

Born

27 January 1979

Ordained deacon

5 March 2006

Ordained priest

22 May 2006

Monastic tonsure

12 April 2008

Made archimandrite

24 October 2010

Elected bishop

25 December 2014

Consecrated bishop

8 March 2015

Made archbishop

13 April 2025

Sees

1. 8 March 2015 – 30 May 2024

   Bishop of Soroca

   Vicar of Chișinău · Patriarchate of Moscow

2. 30 May 2024 – 13 April 2025

   Bishop of Soroca and Drochia

   Patriarchate of Moscow

3. 13 April 2025 – present

   Archbishop of Soroca and Drochia

   Patriarchate of Moscow

Consecration

Consecrated 8 March 2015 by:

• Cyril Gundyayev Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', b. 1946
• Vladimir Cantarean Metropolitan of Chișinău and Moldova, b. 1952
• Hilarion Alfeyev Metropolitan of Budapest and Hungary, b. 1966
• Arsenii Epifanov Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Zadonsk, b. 1955
• Savva Volkov Archbishop of Tiraspol and Dubăsari, b. 1958
• Feognost Guzikov Metropolitan of Kashira, b. 1960
• Anatolii Botnari Archbishop of Cahul and Comrat, b. 1950
• Sergii Chashin Metropolitan of Singapore and Southeast Asia, b. 1974
• Nikodim Vulpe Archbishop of Edineţ and Briceni, b. 1956
• Ambrose Munteanu Bishop of Bogorodsk, b. 1973

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 11 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. John Moșneguțu Archbishop of Soroca and Drochia consecrated 8 March 2015
2. Vladimir Cantarean Metropolitan of Chișinău and Moldova, b. 1952 consecrated 21 July 1989
3. Leontii Bondar Metropolitan of Orenburg and Buzuluk, 1913–1999 consecrated 10 August 1956
4. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
5. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
6. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
7. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
8. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
9. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
10. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
11. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
12. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 1

• 4 November 2016Silouan Şalari Bishop of Orhei, b. 1977

Sources

• patriarchia.ru

Also in: patriarchia.ru, Wikidata