Neophytus Kongai

Life

Born

1970

Ordained deacon

13 September 1998

Ordained priest

27 September 1998

Made archimandrite

27 February 2005

Monastic tonsure

2007

Consecrated bishop

21 December 2014

Made metropolitan

7 October 2025

Sees

1. 21 December 2014 – 2015

   Bishop of Nitria

   Vicar of Kenya · Patriarchate of Alexandria

2. 2015 – 24 November 2022

   Bishop of Nyeri and Mount Kenya

   Patriarchate of Alexandria

3. 24 November 2022 – 7 October 2025

   Bishop of Eldoret

   Patriarchate of Alexandria

4. 7 October 2025 – present

   Metropolitan of Eldoret

   Patriarchate of Alexandria

Consecration

Consecrated 21 December 2014 by:

• Theodore II Choreftakis Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, b. 1954
• Makarios Tillyrides Archbishop of Kenya, b. 1945
• Gabriel Raftopoulos Metropolitan of Leontopolis, b. 1957
• Meletios Koumanis Metropolitan of Carthage, b. 1970

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 15 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Neophytus Kongai Metropolitan of Eldoret consecrated 21 December 2014
2. Meletios Koumanis Metropolitan of Carthage, b. 1970 consecrated 5 December 2014
3. Narkissos Gammoh Metropolitan of Pelusium, b. 1968 consecrated 1 December 2013
4. Philoumenos Machamre Archbishop of Pella, b. 1970 consecrated 17 March 2013
5. Makarios Maurogiannakis Metropolitan of Ptolemais, b. 1968 consecrated 10 March 2013
6. Maksim Dmitriev Bishop of Yelets and Lebedyansk, b. 1961 consecrated 20 January 2002
7. Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003 consecrated 23 May 1963
8. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
9. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
10. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
11. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
12. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
13. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
14. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
15. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
16. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 2

• 24 November 2015Athanasios Masaba Bishop of Kisumu and All Western Kenya, 1971–2019
• 15 January 2023Panaretos Kimani Bishop of Nyeri and Mount Kenya, b. 1985

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr