Polycarp Diamantopoulos

Life

Born

2 February 1973

Consecrated bishop

10 March 2024

Sees

1. 10 March 2024 – present

   Bishop of Bunia and Kisangani

   Patriarchate of Alexandria

Consecration

Consecrated 10 March 2024 by:

• Theodore II Choreftakis Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, b. 1954
• Gabriel Raftopoulos Metropolitan of Leontopolis, b. 1957
• Germanos Galanes Metropolitan of Tamiathis, b. 1951
• Prodromos Katsoules Bishop of Toliara and Southern Madagascar, b. 1982
• Cosmas Thasites Bishop of Constantianis, b. 1975

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. Polycarp Diamantopoulos Bishop of Bunia and Kisangani consecrated 10 March 2024
2. Prodromos Katsoules Bishop of Toliara and Southern Madagascar, b. 1982 consecrated 13 January 2019
3. Eustathios Speliotes Metropolitan of Monemvasia and Sparta, b. 1940 consecrated 31 August 1980
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

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr

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