Nektarios Papazafeiropoulos

Life

Born

1985

Monastic tonsure

June 2002

Ordained priest

18 January 2004

Consecrated bishop

13 April 2024

Sees

1. 13 April 2024 – present

   Bishop of Diokleia

   Vicar of America · Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 13 April 2024 by:

• Elpidophoros Lambriniadis Archbishop of America, b. 1967
• Paul Papalexiou Metropolitan of Servia and Kozani, b. 1942
• Sebastian Skordallos Metropolitan of Atlanta, b. 1955
• Joachim Cotsonis Bishop of Amissos, b. 1954
• Athenagoras Zeliaskopoulos Metropolitan of New Jersey, b. 1970
• Christopher Angelopoulos Bishop of Amphipolis, b. 1974

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. Nektarios Papazafeiropoulos Bishop of Diokleia consecrated 13 April 2024
2. Elpidophoros Lambriniadis Archbishop of America, b. 1967 consecrated 20 March 2011
3. Hilarion Alfeyev Metropolitan of Budapest and Hungary, b. 1966 consecrated 14 January 2002
4. Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003 consecrated 23 May 1963
5. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
6. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
7. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
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 2

• 20 April 2024Anthony Vrame Bishop of Synada, cons. 2024
• 28 March 2026Dionysios Anagnostopoulos Bishop of Zenoupolis, b. 1978

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr