Ghenadie Petrescu

Life

Born

March 1836

Monastic tonsure

March 1858

Ordained deacon

9 March 1858

Ordained priest

1869

Made archimandrite

1873

Consecrated bishop

23 February 1875

Made metropolitan

18 May 1893

Retired

4 December 1896

Died

31 August 1918

Sees

1. 23 February 1875 – 1876

   Bishop of Pitești

   Patriarchate of Romania

2. 1875 – 1876

   Locum tenens of Argeș

   Patriarchate of Romania

3. 1876 – 18 May 1893

   Bishop of Argeș

   Patriarchate of Romania

4. 18 May 1893 – 4 December 1896

   Metropolitan of Hungro-Wallachia and Primate of the Church of Romania

   Patriarchate of Romania

5. 4 December 1896 – 31 August 1918

   Former Metropolitan of Hungro-Wallachia and Primate of the Church of Romania

   Patriarchate of Romania

Consecration

Consecrated 23 February 1875 by:

• Joseph Naniescu Metropolitan of Argeș
• Calist Bishop of Stratonikeia and Bacău, 1805–1885
• Theodoret Bishop of Synada and Craiova, d. 1883

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 4 generations back to Methodios I Barotses; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Ghenadie Petrescu Metropolitan of Hungro-Wallachia and Primate of the Church of Romania consecrated 23 February 1875
2. Theodoret Bishop of Synada and Craiova, d. 1883 consecrated 20 October 1856
3. Gregory Goudocheiras Bishop of Agathonica, 1809–1877 consecrated 12 May 1849
4. Athanasios Tziotes Metropolitan of Palmyra, d. 1856 consecrated 1835
5. Methodios I Barotses Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, 1771–1850 consecrated 1814

Bishops he consecrated 1

• 25 March 1895Nifon Niculescu Bishop of the Lower Danube, 1858–1923

Sources

Also in: Wikidata