Orthodox Hierarchs

Patriarchate of Alexandria

Nephon Daskalakis

Νήφων

Bishop of Mahajanga and Northern Madagascar · b. 1970

Born (Νικόλαος Δασκαλάκης)

Life

Born
1970
Monastic tonsure
September 2015
Ordained deacon
5 February 2016
Ordained priest
6 February 2016
Made archimandrite
6 February 2016
Consecrated bishop
5 December 2025

Sees

  1. 5 December 2025 – present

    Bishop of Mahajanga and Northern Madagascar

    Patriarchate of Alexandria

Consecration

Consecrated 5 December 2025 by:

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 14 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

  1. Nephon Daskalakis Bishop of Mahajanga and Northern Madagascar consecrated 5 December 2025
  2. Damaskinos Al Azrai Bishop of Mareotis, b. 1987 consecrated 1 November 2025
  3. Chrysostom Nases Metropolitan of Trikki, Gardiki and Pyli, b. 1975 consecrated 11 October 2015
  4. Anthimos Roussas Metropolitan of Thessaloniki, b. 1934 consecrated 14 July 1974
  5. Gabriel Kalokairinos Metropolitan of Thera, Amorgos and Nisoi, 1910–1983 consecrated 17 November 1957
  6. Maximos Tsaouses Metropolitan of Sardis, 1914–1986 consecrated 16 June 1946
  7. Polycarp Demetriades Metropolitan of Prousa, 1892–1953 consecrated 25 December 1927
  8. Alexander Nemolovsky Metropolitan of Brussels and Belgium, 1876–1960 consecrated 28 November 1909
  9. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
  10. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
  11. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
  12. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
  13. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
  14. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
  15. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Sources

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