Athenagoras Zeliaskopoulos

Life

Born

1970

Ordained deacon

1997

Ordained priest

1998

Consecrated bishop

5 June 2021

Made metropolitan

1 October 2026

Sees

1. 5 June 2021 – 1 October 2026

   Bishop of Nazianzos

   Vicar of the Ecumenical Patriarch · Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 1 October 2026 – present

   Metropolitan of New Jersey

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 5 June 2021 by:

• Elpidophoros Lambriniadis Archbishop of America, b. 1967
• Methodios Tournas Metropolitan of Boston, b. 1946
• Alexios Panagiotopoulos Metropolitan of Atlanta, b. 1943
• Cleopas Strongylis Metropolitan of Sweden and All Scandinavia, b. 1966
• Sebastian Skordallos Metropolitan of Atlanta, b. 1955
• Apostolos Koufalakes Archbishop of Canada, cons. 2014
• Hierotheos Zacharis Bishop of Evkarpia, cons. 2017
• Joachim Cotsonis Bishop of Amissos, b. 1954

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 12 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Athenagoras Zeliaskopoulos Metropolitan of New Jersey consecrated 5 June 2021
2. Cleopas Strongylis Metropolitan of Sweden and All Scandinavia, b. 1966 consecrated 21 May 2014
3. Bartholomew I Archondonis Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, b. 1940 consecrated 25 December 1973
4. Chrysostom Koronaios Metropolitan of Neocaesarea, 1894–1976 consecrated 7 May 1944
5. Polycarp Demetriades Metropolitan of Prousa, 1892–1953 consecrated 25 December 1927
6. Alexander Nemolovsky Metropolitan of Brussels and Belgium, 1876–1960 consecrated 28 November 1909
7. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
8. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
9. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
10. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
11. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
12. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
13. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 6

• 3 July 2021Ambrose Koutsourides Bishop of Argyropolis, b. 1968
• 20 March 2022Gregory Tsoutsoules Bishop of Abydos, cons. 2022
• 15 October 2022Konstantinos Morales Metropolitan of Denver, b. 1966
• 13 April 2024Nektarios Papazafeiropoulos Bishop of Diokleia, b. 1985
• 20 April 2024Anthony Vrame Bishop of Synada, cons. 2024
• 28 March 2026Dionysios Anagnostopoulos Bishop of Zenoupolis, b. 1978

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr