Anthony El Soury

Life

Born

20 June 1970

Ordained deacon

20 March 2005

Ordained priest

24 July 2005

Made archimandrite

7 September 2008

Monastic tonsure

16 June 2012

Consecrated bishop

14 November 2015

Made metropolitan

14 November 2015

Sees

1. 14 November 2015 – present

   Metropolitan of Zahle, Baalbek and Dependencies

   Patriarchate of Antioch

Consecration

Consecrated 14 November 2015 by:

• John X Yazigi Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, b. 1955
• George Khodre Metropolitan of Byblos, Batroun and Dependencies, b. 1923
• Elias Kfoury Metropolitan of Tyre, Sidon and Dependencies, b. 1947
• George Abu Zakhem Metropolitan of Homs (Emessa) and Dependencies, cons. 1988
• Basil Mansour Metropolitan of Akkar and Dependencies, b. 1962
• Silouan Oner Metropolitan of the British Isles and Ireland, b. 1970
• Nephon Saykali Metropolitan of Philippopolis (Chehba), cons. 1988
• Athanasios Fahd Metropolitan of Laodicea, cons. 2011
• Demetrios Charbak Bishop of Banias, cons. 2011
• Elias Toumeh Bishop of Arthousa (Pyrgou), cons. 2011
• Constantine Kayyal Bishop of Zabadani, cons. 2011
• Gregory Khoury Bishop of the Emirates, b. 1975
• Qais Sadiq Bishop of Erzurum, 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. Anthony El Soury Metropolitan of Zahle, Baalbek and Dependencies consecrated 14 November 2015
2. Qais Sadiq Bishop of Erzurum, b. 1954 consecrated 23 November 2014
3. Varlaam Merticariu Bishop of Ploiești, b. 1960 consecrated 20 December 2009
4. Sofronie Drincec Bishop of Oradea, Bihor and Sălaj, b. 1967 consecrated 1999
5. Peter Păduraru Metropolitan of Bessarabia, b. 1946 consecrated 1 September 1990
6. Vladimir Kotlyarov Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1929–2022 consecrated 30 December 1962
7. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
8. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
9. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
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 1

• 19 November 2017Basil Kodseie/Qoudsiah Metropolitan of Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines, cons. 2017