Bishop Christo Proykov

Bishop Emeritus of Saint John XXIII of Sofia (Bulgarian), Bulgaria

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
11 Mar 1946		Born
23 May 1971	25.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Sofia (Bulgarian), Bulgaria
18 Dec 1993	47.7	Appointed	Coadjutor Apostolic Exarch of Sofia (Bulgarian), Bulgaria
18 Dec 1993	47.7	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Briula
6 Jan 1994	47.8	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Briula
5 Sep 1995	49.4	Succeeded	Apostolic Exarch of Sofia (Bulgarian), Bulgaria
11 Oct 2019	73.5	Appointed	Bishop of Saint John XXIII of Sofia (Bulgarian), Bulgaria
8 Apr 2024	78.0	Retired	Bishop of Saint John XXIII of Sofia (Bulgarian), Bulgaria

MicroData Summary for Christo Proykov
(VIAF: 208147149; WikiData: Q304341)
Bishop Christo Proykov (born 11 Mar 1946) Bishop Emeritus of Saint John XXIII of Sofia

Ad Limina - November 2005: Bishop
Ad Limina - February 2014: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Sofia, Apostolic Exarchate of Sofia (Bulgarian)
Ordained Bishop San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

Please contact the Bishop through the Eparchy of Saint John XXIII of Sofia (Bulgarian).

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Pope John Paul II
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Giovanni Battista Re
Titular Archbishop of Forum Novum
Archbishop Giuseppe (Josip) Uhac †
Titular Archbishop of Tharros

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Pope John Paul II (1958)
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak † (1933)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop Bolesław Twardowski † (1919)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop St. Józef Bilczewski † (1901)
Archbishop of Lviv
Bishop Jan Maurycy Pawel Puzyna z Kosielsko † (1886)
Bishop of Kraków
Mieczyslaw Halka Cardinal Ledóchowski † (1861)
Archbishop of Gniezno e Poznań
Camillo Cardinal Di Pietro † (1839)
Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni a Porta Latina
Chiarissimo Cardinal Falconieri Mellini † (1826)
Archbishop of Ravenna
Pope Leo XII (1794)
(Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga †)
Henry Benedict Mary Clement Cardinal Stuart of York † (1758)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Pope Clement XIII (1743)
(Carlo della Torre Rezzonico †)
Pope Benedict XIV (1724)
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini †)
Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop of Bologna
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Petko Valov (2024)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Rumen Ivanov Stanev (2021)
Bishop Strahil Veselinov Kavalenov (2021)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Sofia, Apostolic Exarchate of Sofia (Bulgarian)
Ordained Bishop	San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

Source(s):

ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 136, Number 12,193
c34: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 137
ab: Bollettino, 11 Oct 2019
r: Bollettino, 8 Apr 2024

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