Chariton Toumbas

Life

Born

1975

Ordained deacon

14 January 1996

Ordained priest

8 March 1998

Elected bishop

25 June 2014

Consecrated bishop

29 June 2014

Made metropolitan

29 June 2014

Sees

1. 29 June 2014 – present

   Metropolitan of Elassona and Deskate

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 29 June 2014 by:

• Hieronymos II Liapis Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, b. 1938
• Serapheim Stephanou Metropolitan of Stagoi and Meteora, 1932–2017
• Chrysostom Kalamatianos Metropolitan of Methymna, b. 1930
• Iakovos Phrantzes Metropolitan of Mytilini, Eressos and Plomarion, b. 1942
• Joseph Harkiolakis Metropolitan of Proikonnisos, b. 1955
• Ignatios Lappas Metropolitan of Larisa and Tyrnavos, 1946–2018
• Hierotheos Vlachos Metropolitan of Nafpaktos and Agios Vlasios, b. 1944
• Eusebios Pistoles Metropolitan of Samos and Ikaria, b. 1949
• Dorotheos Polykandriotes Metropolitan of Syros, Tinos, Andros, Kea and Milos, b. 1963
• Nektarios Dovas Metropolitan of Corfu, Paxoi and the Diapontian Islands, b. 1953
• Chrysostom Savvatos Metropolitan of Messenia, b. 1961
• George Mantzouranes Metropolitan of Thebes and Levadeia, b. 1952
• Athenagoras Dikaiakos Metropolitan of Ilion, Acharnes and Petroupolis, b. 1951
• Dionysios Siphnaios Metropolitan of Zakynthos and Strophades, b. 1954
• Cyril Misiakoules Metropolitan of Kephisia, Amarousios and Oropos, b. 1963
• George Chrysostomou Metropolitan of Kitros, Katerini and Platamon, b. 1964
• Maximos Papagiannes Metropolitan of Ioannina, b. 1968
• Gabriel Papanikolaou Metropolitan of Nea Ionia and Philadelphia, b. 1976
• Anthony Avramiotes Metropolitan of Glyfada, Elliniko, Voula, Vouliagmeni and Vari, b. 1957

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. Chariton Toumbas Metropolitan of Elassona and Deskate consecrated 29 June 2014
2. Iakovos Phrantzes Metropolitan of Mytilini, Eressos and Plomarion, b. 1942 consecrated 20 November 1988
3. Anthimos Roussas Metropolitan of Thessaloniki, b. 1934 consecrated 14 July 1974
4. Gabriel Kalokairinos Metropolitan of Thera, Amorgos and Nisoi, 1910–1983 consecrated 17 November 1957
5. Maximos Tsaouses Metropolitan of Sardis, 1914–1986 consecrated 16 June 1946
6. Polycarp Demetriades Metropolitan of Prousa, 1892–1953 consecrated 25 December 1927
7. Alexander Nemolovsky Metropolitan of Brussels and Belgium, 1876–1960 consecrated 28 November 1909
8. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
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 7

• 30 June 2014Timothy Anthes Metropolitan of Thessaliotis and Phanariopharsala, b. 1964
• 11 October 2014Constantine Giakoumakes Metropolitan of Megara and Salamina, b. 1960
• 12 October 2014David Tzioumakas Metropolitan of Grevena, b. 1958
• 10 October 2015Demetrios Argyros Metropolitan of Kefalonia, b. 1958
• 11 October 2015Chrysostom Nases Metropolitan of Trikki, Gardiki and Pyli, b. 1975
• 30 October 2023Christopher Angelopoulos Bishop of Amphipolis, b. 1974
• 1 February 2026Ambrose Stambliakas Bishop of Sinope, b. 1978

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr