Damaskinos Lionakes

Life

Born

7 January 1979

Monastic tonsure

2007

Ordained deacon

2007

Ordained priest

2011

Consecrated bishop

15 December 2019

Sees

1. 15 December 2019 – present

   Bishop of Dorylaion

   Vicar of Constantinople · Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 15 December 2019 by:

• Bartholomew I Archondonis Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, b. 1940
• Demetrios Kommatas Metropolitan of the Princes' Islands, b. 1952
• Eireneos Ioannides Metropolitan of Myriofytos and Peristasi, b. 1951
• Theoleptos Phenerles Metropolitan of Iconium, 1957–2026
• Andrew Nanankes Metropolitan of Arkalochorion, Kastelion and Viannos, b. 1957
• Paul Papalexiou Metropolitan of Servia and Kozani, b. 1942
• Dionysios Mantalos Metropolitan of Corinth, Sikion, Zemenon, Tarsus and Polyfengos, b. 1952
• Damaskinos Papagiannakes Metropolitan of Kydonia and Apokoronos, b. 1958
• Nikephoros Konstantinou Metropolitan of Kinshasa, 1949–2021
• Chrysostom Nases Metropolitan of Trikki, Gardiki and Pyli, b. 1975
• Cyril Diamantakes Metropolitan of Ierapytna and Sitia, b. 1971

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. Damaskinos Lionakes Bishop of Dorylaion consecrated 15 December 2019
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