Dionysios Siphnaios

Life

Born

17 December 1954

Monastic tonsure

14 August 1977

Ordained deacon

15 August 1977

Made archimandrite

1983

Ordained priest

17 December 1983

Elected bishop

10 May 2010

Consecrated bishop

13 May 2010

Made metropolitan

7 October 2011

Sees

1. 13 May 2010 – 7 October 2011

   Bishop of Photike

   Church of Greece

2. 7 October 2011 – present

   Metropolitan of Zakynthos and Strophades

   Church of Greece

Consecration

Consecrated 13 May 2010 by:

• Chrysostom Synetos Metropolitan of Dodoni, b. 1939

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. Dionysios Siphnaios Metropolitan of Zakynthos and Strophades consecrated 13 May 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 13

• 14 May 2010Cyril Misiakoules Metropolitan of Kephisia, Amarousios and Oropos, b. 1963
• 17 October 2010John Tsaftaridis Metropolitan of Zambia and Mozambique, b. 1969
• 9 October 2011Gabriel Papanikolaou Metropolitan of Nea Ionia and Philadelphia, b. 1976
• 6 October 2012Chrysostom Tsiringas Metropolitan of Nikopolis and Preveza, b. 1957
• 28 June 2014Maximos Papagiannes Metropolitan of Ioannina, b. 1968
• 29 June 2014Chariton Toumbas Metropolitan of Elassona and Deskate, b. 1975
• 30 June 2014Timothy Anthes Metropolitan of Thessaliotis and Phanariopharsala, b. 1964
• 11 October 2014Constantine Giakoumakes Metropolitan of Megara and Salamina, b. 1960
• 13 October 2014Clement Koutsomytes Metropolitan of Peristerion, 1954–2021
• 10 October 2015Demetrios Argyros Metropolitan of Kefalonia, b. 1958
• 11 October 2015Chrysostom Nases Metropolitan of Trikki, Gardiki and Pyli, b. 1975
• 14 October 2019Eustratios Kalogeropoulos Metropolitan of Lemnos and Agios Eustratios, b. 1962
• 15 October 2024Stephen Devrelis Bishop of Almopia, b. 1972

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr

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