John Tsaftaridis

Life

Born

16 August 1969

Ordained deacon

21 November 1993

Ordained priest

17 December 1993

Made archimandrite

1998

Consecrated bishop

17 October 2010

Made metropolitan

24 November 2015

Sees

1. 17 October 2010 – 24 November 2015

   Bishop of Mozambique

   Patriarchate of Alexandria

2. 24 November 2015 – 26 November 2018

   Metropolitan of Zambia and Malawi

   Patriarchate of Alexandria

3. 26 November 2018 – present

   Metropolitan of Zambia and Mozambique

   Patriarchate of Alexandria

Consecration

Consecrated 17 October 2010 by:

• Theodore II Choreftakis Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, b. 1954
• Chrysostom Synetos Metropolitan of Dodoni, b. 1939
• Joachim Condovas Metropolitan of Helenoupolis, b. 1956
• Gabriel Raftopoulos Metropolitan of Leontopolis, b. 1957
• Dionysios Siphnaios Metropolitan of Zakynthos and Strophades, b. 1954

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. John Tsaftaridis Metropolitan of Zambia and Mozambique consecrated 17 October 2010
2. Chrysostom Synetos Metropolitan of Dodoni, b. 1939 consecrated 16 August 1976
3. Spyridon Kyvetos Metropolitan of Zichnai and Nevrokopion, 1919–2003 consecrated 27 May 1974
4. Chrysostom Themelis Metropolitan of Messenia, 1918–2007 consecrated 21 November 1957
5. Iakovos Coucouzes Former Archbishop of North and South America, 1911–2005 consecrated 6 February 1955
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 3

• 24 November 2015Athanasios Masaba Bishop of Kisumu and All Western Kenya, 1971–2019
• 5 December 2018Daniel Biazes Metropolitan of Accra, b. 1977
• 18 December 2022Chrysostom Xynos Bishop of Verenikia, b. 1941

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr

Also in: Wikidata