Neophyte II ( ro, Neofit al II-lea, secular name Neofit Gianoglu, el, Νεόφυτος Γιανόγλου; January 1, 1787, Bucharest – January 14, 1850, Bucharest) was

Metropolitan of Ungro-Wallachia The Metropolis of Wallachia and Dobruja, headquartered in Bucharest, Romania, is a metropolis of the Romanian Orthodox Church. History The Metropolis of Ungro-Wallachia was created, in 1359, by Callistus I, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantino ...

(1840-1849), and a participant in the

Wallachian Revolution of 1848 The Wallachian Revolution of 1848 was a Romanian liberal and nationalist uprising in the Principality of Wallachia. Part of the Revolutions of 1848, and closely connected with the unsuccessful revolt in the Principality of Moldavia, it sough ...

Biography

In 1818 he was ordained

Hierodeacon A hierodeacon (Greek: Ἱεροδιάκονος, ''Ierodiákonos''; Slavonic: ''Ierodiakón''), sometimes translated "deacon-monk", in Eastern Orthodox Christianity is a monk who has been ordained a deacon (or deacon who has been tonsured monk). Th ...

, on March 29, 1824

Hieromonk A hieromonk ( el, Ἱερομόναχος, Ieromonachos; ka, მღვდელმონაზონი, tr; Slavonic: ''Ieromonakh'', ro, Ieromonah), also called a priestmonk, is a monk who is also a priest in the Eastern Orthodox Church and ...

and on April 5, 1824

Archimandrite The title archimandrite ( gr, ἀρχιμανδρίτης, archimandritēs), used in Eastern Christianity, originally referred to a superior abbot ('' hegumenos'', gr, ἡγούμενος, present participle of the verb meaning "to lead") wh ...

. He became Abbot of the Sfântul Gheorghe Nou Monastery in Bucharest, was elected Bishop of Râmnicu on April 18, 1824, and on April 20 he was ordained Bishop by Gregory IV, the Teacher, Metropolitan of Ungro-Wallachia. He agreed to be vicar of the Metropolitanate from February 1829 to August 22, 1833, while Gregory IV was exiled in Russia and also after his death on June 22, between 1834 and 1840. From June 29, 1840 to July 27, 1849, he was officially appointed

. In 1831 he became a member of the Extraordinary Public Revision Assembly and was appointed president of the Royal Divan. During the

(July-September 1848), he was invited by the Revolutionary Committee to become Chairman of the Provisional Government, which he accepted on July 12. He fiercely opposed the reform plans of radicals within the government, such as

Nicolae Bălcescu Nicolae Bălcescu () (29 June 181929 November 1852) was a Romanian Wallachian soldier, historian, journalist, and leader of the 1848 Wallachian Revolution. Early life Born in Bucharest to a family of low-ranking nobility, he used his mother's ...

. He eventually turned against the Provisional Government, but his coup d'état failed and he was replaced on August 9, 1848 by a radical triumvirate consisting of

Ion Heliade Rădulescu Ion Heliade Rădulescu or Ion Heliade (also known as ''Eliade'' or ''Eliade Rădulescu''; ; January 6, 1802 – April 27, 1872) was a Wallachian, later Romanian academic, Romantic and Classicist poet, essayist, memoirist, short story writ ...

Nicolae Golescu Nicolae Golescu (1810–1877) was a Wallachian Romanian politician who served as the Prime Minister of Romania in 1860 and May–November 1868.James Chastain (2004). ''Golescu Brothers''. Ohio University https://www.ohio.edu/chastain/dh/golesb.ht ...

and

Christian Tell Christian Tell (January 12, 1808 - February 4/16, 1884) was a Transylvanian-born Wallachian and Romanian general and politician. Life and activity He was born in Brașov on January 12, 1808. He studied at the Saint Sava National College in Buc ...

. After the suppression of the Revolution he requested (as Metropolitan) the restoration of order and contributed to the capture of clerics who had engaged in revolutionary actions, which led to him being considered a controversial figure from 1848. On July 27, 1849 he retired from the metropolitan seat. As a metropolitan, he set up four theological seminaries in Wallachia and supported sending young people to scholarships in Greece and Russia.

Sources

* the article in the Romanian Wikipedia, Neofit al II-lea.'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Neophyte 02 of Ungro-Wallachia 1787 births 1850 deaths Romanian Orthodox metropolitan bishops Clergy from Bucharest People of the Revolutions of 1848