16 April
1822 – Metropolitan Calinic Miclescu was born in Suceava, to an old
family of boyars. On 18 June 1842, his uncle Sofronie, the future
Metropolitan of Moldova, tonsured him into monasticism. On 23 April
1843, he was ordained hierodeacon, hieromonk on 31 November, then
protosingel and archmandrite on 2 February 1855. From 1851 – 1958, he
was abbot in Slatina, where he set up a school in Mălini locality, for
the peasants’ children. He was a member in the Ad Hoc Council, Bishop
locum tenens in Huși (November 1958 – January 1861), and then abbot
again at Slatina (1861 – 1863), Metropolitan locum tenens of Moldova
(from 7 May 1863), then on 31 May 1875, he is elected Primate
Metropolitan, a position that he would hold till his death. On 11 April
1876, he is elected president of the Senate. During his service, the
courses of the Faculty of Orthodox Theology of Bucharest were begun, the
Printing House for Church Books was set up and the autocephaly of the
Romanian Orthodox Church was recognised (1885). On 14 August 1886, he
passed away, in Bucharest, and buried at Neamț.
