Simeon (Kostadinow)

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Metropolitan Simeon (2007)

Metropolitan Simeon Yetarian ( Bulgarian Митрополит Симеон , secular name Christo Dimitrov Kostadinov , Христо Димитров Костадинов * 17th September 1926 in Varna , Bulgaria ; † 16th April 2016 in Phoenix , Arizona , United States ) was a Bulgarian Orthodox cleric, Metropolitan and founder of the Bulgarian Orthodox Diocese of Western and Central Europe and member of the Holy Synod .

Life

Simeon was born on September 17, 1926 in the Bulgarian Black Sea city of Varna. After graduating from high school, he went to Sofia, where he enrolled at the Iwan Rilski Spiritual Academy in Sofia. After graduating from the Academy, Simeon was ordained a monk on December 6, 1954, and as a monk deacon and member of the monastic community of Rila Monastery on February 12, 1955 . As a candidate for theological science, he went to the Moscow Spiritual Academy in 1957 , where he was ordained a monk- priest on October 8, 1958 by the Moscow Patriarch Alexius I.

The St. Boris the Baptist Cathedral in Berlin, consecrated in 2005

In 1959 Simeon returned to Bulgaria as a professor at the Spiritual Seminary in Sofia and became Archimandrite on November 1, 1961 . On January 22, 1966, he was sent to New York as Protosingel and ordained bishop on January 14, 1973 as Bishop of Glawiniza , Vicar Bishop of the Metropolitan City of New York and Administrator of the Diocese of Akron .

Since 1980 Simeon has worked for the Bulgarian Orthodox communities in Western Europe. As vicar bishop of the Bulgarian patriarch Maxim , Simeon was appointed Metropolitan of the (foreign) diocese of Western Europe of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church based in the Hungarian capital Budapest . After the end of the Cold War, he built a second center in the diocese in Berlin .

Since 1994, Simeon was a metropolitan of Central and Western Europe with his seat in Berlin. On May 29, 2005, Simeon, Episcopal Vicar Tichon, Archimandrite Charalampi (Varna) and other clergy consecrated the chapel at Neukölln Cemetery V of the Jerusalem and New Church Congregation to the Holy Tsar Boris I Michael the Baptist as the cathedral of the Western and Central Europeans Diocese of Bulgarian Orthodoxy. The ceremony was attended by the then Prime Minister of Bulgaria, Simeon Sakskoburggotski (formerly Tsar Simeon II), and the Bulgarian ambassador.

On June 11, 2013, he resigned from office as a Western and Central European metropolitan. He was succeeded by Antonij (Michalew; Антоний [Михалев]) and was introduced as a metropolitan on October 27 of the same year.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ex-Bulgarian Metropolitan of W, C Europe passes away . Focus News Agency, April 16, 2016.

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personal data
SURNAME Simeon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Yetarian, Simeon; Kostadinow, Christo Dimitrov (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bulgarian clergyman, Metropolitan of Central and Western Europe of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Varna , Bulgaria
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 2016
Place of death Phoenix , Arizona , United States