Ambrose Zografos

Life

Born

15 March 1960

Ordained deacon

1985

Ordained priest

1991

Consecrated bishop

5 February 2005

Made metropolitan

27 May 2008

Sees

1. 5 February 2005 – 27 May 2008

   Bishop of Zela

   Vicar of Korea · Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 27 May 2008 – present

   Metropolitan of Korea

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 5 February 2005 by:

• Sotirios Trambas Metropolitan of Pisidia, 1929–2022
• Eustathios Speliotes Metropolitan of Monemvasia and Sparta, b. 1940
• Ephrem Stenakis Metropolitan of Ydra, Spetsai, Aigina, Poros, Troizena and Methana, b. 1948

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. Ambrose Zografos Metropolitan of Korea consecrated 5 February 2005
2. Sotirios Trambas Metropolitan of Pisidia, 1929–2022 consecrated 21 March 1993
3. Dionysios Psiachas Metropolitan of Prousa, 1916–2008 consecrated 6 December 1959
4. Matthew Siemaszko Bishop of Aspendos, 1894–1985 consecrated 29 November 1938
5. Alexander Inozemtsev Metropolitan of Pinsk and Poliske, 1887–1948 consecrated 4 June 1922
6. George Yaroshevskii Metropolitan of Warsaw and Chełm, 1872–1923 consecrated 1 July 1906
7. Vladimir Bogoyavlenskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1848–1918 consecrated 13 June 1888
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 4

• 30 October 2011Feofan Kim Archbishop of Korea, b. 1976
• 11 July 2018Myron Ktistakes Metropolitan of New Zealand, b. 1969
• 18 January 2020Elpidios Karales Bishop of Perth, b. 1971
• 19 January 2020Silouan Foteineas Bishop of Adelaide, b. 1978

Sources

Also in: Wikidata