Paul Kitsos

Life

Born

1967

Monastic tonsure

4 August 1995

Ordained deacon

5 August 1995

Ordained priest

26 December 1996

Elected bishop

9 October 2023

Consecrated bishop

9 November 2023

Made metropolitan

9 October 2025

Sees

1. 9 November 2023 – 9 October 2025

   Bishop of Thespiai

   Church of Greece

2. 9 October 2025 – present

   Metropolitan of Corinth

   Church of Greece

Consecration

Consecrated 9 November 2023 by:

• Hieronymos II Liapis Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, b. 1938
• Apostolos Voulgares Metropolitan of Miletus, b. 1948
• Panteleimon Kalaphates Metropolitan of Xanthi and Peritheorion, b. 1943
• Chrysostom Savvatos Metropolitan of Messenia, b. 1961
• Athenagoras Dikaiakos Metropolitan of Ilion, Acharnes and Petroupolis, b. 1951
• George Rembelos Metropolitan of Karpenision, b. 1963
• Stephen Tolios Metropolitan of Filippoi, Neapolis and Thasos, b. 1960

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 13 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Paul Kitsos Metropolitan of Corinth consecrated 9 November 2023
2. Stephen Tolios Metropolitan of Filippoi, Neapolis and Thasos, b. 1960 consecrated 8 October 2017
3. Anthimos Roussas Metropolitan of Thessaloniki, b. 1934 consecrated 14 July 1974
4. Gabriel Kalokairinos Metropolitan of Thera, Amorgos and Nisoi, 1910–1983 consecrated 17 November 1957
5. Maximos Tsaouses Metropolitan of Sardis, 1914–1986 consecrated 16 June 1946
6. Polycarp Demetriades Metropolitan of Prousa, 1892–1953 consecrated 25 December 1927
7. Alexander Nemolovsky Metropolitan of Brussels and Belgium, 1876–1960 consecrated 28 November 1909
8. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
9. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
10. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
11. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
12. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
13. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
14. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 2

• 19 October 2025Nikodemos Farmakis Bishop of Epidauros, b. 1971
• 20 October 2025Theologos Alexandrakis Bishop of Talantion, b. 1974

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr

Also in: Wikidata