Theokletos Rokas

Life

Born

2 January 1939

Ordained deacon

21 January 1963

Ordained priest

19 May 1977

Consecrated bishop

22 May 1977

Made metropolitan

5 February 1987

Died

22 April 2004

Sees

1. 22 May 1977 – 5 February 1987

   Bishop of Sebastea

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 5 February 1987 – 8 June 1993

   Metropolitan of Amphipolis

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

3. 8 June 1993 – 22 April 2004

   Metropolitan of Metrai and Athyra

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 22 May 1977 by:

• Meliton Hatzis Senior Metropolitan of Chalcedon, 1913–1989
• Maximos Repanelles Metropolitan of Stavroupolis, 1919–1991
• Bartholomew I Archondonis Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, b. 1940

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. Theokletos Rokas Metropolitan of Metrai and Athyra consecrated 22 May 1977
2. Meliton Hatzis Senior Metropolitan of Chalcedon, 1913–1989 consecrated 30 November 1950
3. Maximos Tsaouses Metropolitan of Sardis, 1914–1986 consecrated 16 June 1946
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

Bishops he consecrated 2

• 10 September 2000Theoleptos Phenerles Metropolitan of Iconium, 1957–2026
• 3 June 2001Tarasios Anton Metropolitan of Rodopolis, b. 1956

Sources

Also in: Wikidata