Panaretos Psaraftis

Life

Born

5 April 1980

Monastic tonsure

2 November 2002

Ordained deacon

February 2003

Ordained priest

12 December 2003

Consecrated bishop

31 May 2026

Sees

1. 31 May 2026 – present

   Bishop of Tamisos

   Exarch of Lithuania · Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 31 May 2026 by:

• Bartholomew I Archondonis Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, b. 1940
• Emmanuel Adamakis Senior Metropolitan of Chalcedon, b. 1958
• Eugene Antonopoulos Archbishop of Crete, b. 1968
• Nektarios Selalmatzides Archbishop of Anthidona, b. 1962
• Theoleptos Phenerles Metropolitan of Iconium, 1957–2026
• Prodromos Xenthakes Metropolitan of Rethymno and Avlopotamos, b. 1979
• Theodore Meimaris Metropolitan of Seleucia, b. 1979

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 11 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Panaretos Psaraftis Bishop of Tamisos consecrated 31 May 2026
2. Bartholomew I Archondonis Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, b. 1940 consecrated 25 December 1973
3. Chrysostom Koronaios Metropolitan of Neocaesarea, 1894–1976 consecrated 7 May 1944
4. Polycarp Demetriades Metropolitan of Prousa, 1892–1953 consecrated 25 December 1927
5. Alexander Nemolovsky Metropolitan of Brussels and Belgium, 1876–1960 consecrated 28 November 1909
6. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
7. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
8. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
9. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
10. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
11. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
12. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr