Ambrose Koutsourides

Life

Born

1968

Monastic tonsure

1991

Ordained deacon

1991

Ordained priest

1996

Made archimandrite

1996

Consecrated bishop

3 July 2021

Sees

1. 3 July 2021 – present

   Bishop of Argyropolis

   Vicar of Germany · Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 3 July 2021 by:

• Augustine Lambardakis Metropolitan of Germany, b. 1938
• Elpidophoros Lambriniadis Archbishop of America, b. 1967
• Meliton Karas Metropolitan of Philadelphia, b. 1951
• Athenagoras Peckstadt Metropolitan of Belgium, b. 1962
• Justin Bardakas Metropolitan of Nea Krini and Kalamaria, b. 1969
• Eumenios Tamiolakes Bishop of Levkada, b. 1945
• Bartholomew Kessidis Bishop of Arianzos, b. 1968
• Apostolos Koufalakes Archbishop of Canada, cons. 2014
• Athenagoras Zeliaskopoulos Metropolitan of New Jersey, b. 1970

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 11 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Ambrose Koutsourides Bishop of Argyropolis consecrated 3 July 2021
2. Augustine Lambardakis Metropolitan of Germany, b. 1938 consecrated 26 March 1972
3. Emilianos Timiadis Metropolitan of Silybria, 1916–2008 consecrated 25 September 1960
4. Cassian Bezobrazov Bishop of Catania, 1892–1965 consecrated 28 July 1947
5. Vladimir Tikhonitskii Metropolitan of Białystok, 1873–1959 consecrated 3 June 1907
6. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
7. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
8. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
9. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
10. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
11. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
12. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr