Ambrose Lenes

Life

Born

22 July 1938

Ordained deacon

31 May 1961

Ordained priest

17 July 1963

Consecrated bishop

17 August 1976

Made metropolitan

17 August 1976

Retired

18 August 2019

Sees

1. 17 August 1976 – 1978

   Metropolitan of Talantion

   Church of Greece

2. 1978 – 18 August 2019

   Metropolitan of Kalavryta and Aigialeia

   Church of Greece

3. 18 August 2019 – present

   Former Metropolitan of Kalavryta and Aigialeia

   Church of Greece

Consecration

Consecrated 17 August 1976 by:

• Serapheim Tikas Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1913–1998
• Panteleimon Karanikolas Metropolitan of Corinth, 1919–2006
• Paul Sophos Metropolitan of Ierissos, Agion Oros and Ardamerion, 1910–1995
• Chrysostom Voultsos Metropolitan of Nea Smyrni, 1927–1986
• Dionysios Ladopoulos Metropolitan of Neapolis and Stavroupolis, 1929–2008
• Kallinikos Karousos Metropolitan of Peiraeus, 1926–2020
• Christodoulos Paraskevaides Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1939–2008
• Sergios Sigalas Metropolitan of Grevena, 1934–2014
• Chrysostom Zafeires Former Metropolitan of Peristerion, 1935–2019
• Silas Koskinas Metropolitan of Saranta Ecclesies, 1919–2000
• Chrysostom Synetos Metropolitan of Dodoni, b. 1939
• Panteleimon Petrides Bishop of Avlona, 1924–1985

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. Ambrose Lenes Former Metropolitan of Kalavryta and Aigialeia consecrated 17 August 1976
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 10

• 28 January 1979Nikephoros Tziphopoulos Metropolitan of Chios, Psara and Oinoussa, 1930–1979
• 3 October 1981Germanos Paraskevopoulos Metropolitan of Eleia and Oleni, 1932–2023
• 4 October 1981Hieronymos II Liapis Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, b. 1938
• 24 November 1985Agathonikos Fatouros Former Metropolitan of Kitros and Katerini, b. 1937
• 10 October 1998Ignatios Georgakopoulos Metropolitan of Demetrias and Almyros, b. 1956
• 22 January 2000Daniel Pourtsoukles Metropolitan of Kaisariani, Vyron and Ymittos, b. 1952
• 23 January 2000Theokletos Passales Metropolitan of Florina, Prespa and Eordaia, b. 1932
• 16 December 2001Makarios Philotheou Metropolitan of Siderokastron, b. 1952
• 18 October 2009Prokopios Petrides Bishop of Christianoupolis, b. 1960
• 13 October 2019Hieronymos Karmas Metropolitan of Kalavryta and Aigialeia, b. 1966

Sources

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