Dimitrios Couchell

Life

Born

17 February 1938

Ordained deacon

20 March 1983

Ordained priest

26 June 1983

Made archimandrite

26 June 1983

Consecrated bishop

31 May 1998

Retired

2006

Made metropolitan

10 January 2023

Sees

1. 31 May 1998 – 2006

   Bishop of Xanthi

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 2006 – 10 January 2023

   Former Bishop of Xanthi

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

3. 10 January 2023 – present

   Metropolitan of Xanthi

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 31 May 1998 by:

• Spyridon Papageorgiou Former Metropolitan of Chaldea, b. 1944
• Paisios Loulourgas Metropolitan of Tyana, b. 1945
• Philotheos Karamitsos Metropolitan of Meloa, 1924–2017
• Vincent Malamatenios Bishop of Apamea, 1954–2022

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. Dimitrios Couchell Metropolitan of Xanthi consecrated 31 May 1998
2. Paisios Loulourgas Metropolitan of Tyana, b. 1945 consecrated 11 April 1998
3. Kallinikos Alexandrides Metropolitan of Lystra, 1926–2014 consecrated 6 December 1970
4. Chrysostom Koronaios Metropolitan of Neocaesarea, 1894–1976 consecrated 7 May 1944
5. Polycarp Demetriades Metropolitan of Prousa, 1892–1953 consecrated 25 December 1927
6. Alexander Nemolovsky Metropolitan of Brussels and Belgium, 1876–1960 consecrated 28 November 1909
7. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
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 1

• 14 February 2004Tikhon Mollard Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, b. 1966