John Karamouzis

Life

Born

1973

Monastic tonsure

2 November 1996

Ordained deacon

8 November 1996

Ordained priest

18 April 1999

Made archimandrite

18 April 1999

Consecrated bishop

12 October 2025

Sees

1. 12 October 2025 – present

   Bishop of Skiathos

   Church of Greece

Consecration

Consecrated 12 October 2025 by:

• Ignatios Georgakopoulos Metropolitan of Demetrias and Almyros, b. 1956
• Chrysostom Triantaphyllou Metropolitan of Chalkis, Istiaia and Voreion Sporadon, b. 1957
• Chrysostom Savvatos Metropolitan of Messenia, b. 1961
• Gabriel Papanikolaou Metropolitan of Nea Ionia and Philadelphia, b. 1976
• Timothy Anthes Metropolitan of Thessaliotis and Phanariopharsala, b. 1964
• Nikephoros Eustathiou Metropolitan of Gortyna and Megalopolis, b. 1967
• Serapion Mihalakis Metropolitan of Paramythia, Filiates and Giromeri, b. 1967
• Nikodemos Eustathiou Bishop of Scopelos, b. 1969

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 13 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. John Karamouzis Bishop of Skiathos consecrated 12 October 2025
2. Gabriel Papanikolaou Metropolitan of Nea Ionia and Philadelphia, b. 1976 consecrated 9 October 2011
3. Elpidophoros Lambriniadis Archbishop of America, b. 1967 consecrated 20 March 2011
4. Hilarion Alfeyev Metropolitan of Budapest and Hungary, b. 1966 consecrated 14 January 2002
5. Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003 consecrated 23 May 1963
6. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
7. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
8. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
9. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
10. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
11. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
12. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
13. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
14. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 1

• 11 October 2026Christodoulos Kotsifis Bishop of Neochorion, b. 1974

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr