Nephon Tsavaris

Life

Born

1959

Monastic tonsure

1982

Ordained priest

1984

Consecrated bishop

18 October 2009

Made metropolitan

26 November 2014

Sees

1. 18 October 2009 – 26 November 2014

   Bishop of Babylon

   Patriarchate of Alexandria

2. 26 November 2014 – present

   Metropolitan of Pelusium

   Patriarchate of Alexandria

Consecration

Consecrated 18 October 2009 by:

• Theodore II Choreftakis Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, b. 1954
• Peter Giakoumelos Metropolitan of Caesarea, 1932–2020
• Chrysostom Zafeires Former Metropolitan of Peristerion, 1935–2019
• Kallinikos Pippas Metropolitan of Pelusium, d. 2013
• Nicholas Antonioiu Metropolitan of Hermopolis, b. 1944
• Emmanuel Kiagias Metropolitan of Diospolis, b. 1956
• Eugene Antonopoulos Archbishop of Crete, b. 1968
• Gabriel Raftopoulos Metropolitan of Leontopolis, b. 1957
• Nikodemos Priangelos Metropolitan of Memphis, b. 1967
• Gennadios Stantzios Metropolitan of Libya, b. 1969

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 14 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Nephon Tsavaris Metropolitan of Pelusium consecrated 18 October 2009
2. Nikodemos Priangelos Metropolitan of Memphis, b. 1967 consecrated 12 November 2006
3. Damaskinos Karpathakes Metropolitan of Didymoteixon, Orestias and Soufli, b. 1959 consecrated 27 January 1995
4. Iakovos Korozes Metropolitan of Kythira, 1927–2009 consecrated 2 March 1980
5. Gabriel Kalokairinos Metropolitan of Thera, Amorgos and Nisoi, 1910–1983 consecrated 17 November 1957
6. Maximos Tsaouses Metropolitan of Sardis, 1914–1986 consecrated 16 June 1946
7. Polycarp Demetriades Metropolitan of Prousa, 1892–1953 consecrated 25 December 1927
8. Alexander Nemolovsky Metropolitan of Brussels and Belgium, 1876–1960 consecrated 28 November 1909
9. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
10. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
11. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
12. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
13. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
14. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
15. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 12

• 24 October 2010Nikephoros Konstantinou Metropolitan of Kinshasa, 1949–2021
• 2 December 2012Panteleimon Arathymos Metropolitan of Ptolemais, b. 1974
• 6 December 2012Innocent Byakatonda Bishop of Burundi and Rwanda, b. 1964
• 1 December 2013Narkissos Gammoh Metropolitan of Pelusium, b. 1968
• 5 December 2014Meletios Koumanis Metropolitan of Carthage, b. 1970
• 6 December 2014Chrysostom Karagounis Bishop of Mozambique, 1960–2021
• 24 November 2015Athanasios Masaba Bishop of Kisumu and All Western Kenya, 1971–2019
• 27 March 2016Nikodemos Boulaxis Bishop of Nitria, b. 1960
• 11 December 2016Agathonicus Nikolaidis Metropolitan of Arusha and Central Tanzania, b. 1964
• 18 December 2016Theodore Dridakes Metropolitan of Brazzaville and Gabon, b. 1966
• 23 December 2018Photios Chatzeantoniou Metropolitan of Lilongwe, b. 1954
• 6 December 2019Peter Parginos Metropolitan of Axium, b. 1964