Christopher Krikelis

Life

Born

27 March 1981

Monastic tonsure

30 August 2019

Ordained deacon

24 October 2019

Ordained priest

29 June 2020

Made archimandrite

29 June 2020

Consecrated bishop

28 September 2025

Sees

1. 28 September 2025 – present

   Bishop of Kerasounta

   Vicar of Australia · Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 28 September 2025 by:

• Makarios Griniezakes Archbishop of Australia, b. 1973
• Ignatios Georgakopoulos Metropolitan of Demetrias and Almyros, b. 1956
• Gregory Stergiou Metropolitan of Cameroon, b. 1961
• Justin Bardakas Metropolitan of Nea Krini and Kalamaria, b. 1969
• Nathaniel Symeonides Metropolitan of Chicago, b. 1978
• Iakovos Tsigounis Bishop of Miletoupolis, b. 1966
• Elpidios Karales Bishop of Perth, b. 1971
• Silouan Foteineas Bishop of Adelaide, b. 1978
• Christodoulos Economou Bishop of Magnesia, b. 1978
• Eumenios Vasilopoulos Bishop of Chora, b. 1981
• Themistokles Adamopoulos Bishop of Nicopolis, b. 1945

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. Christopher Krikelis Bishop of Kerasounta consecrated 28 September 2025
2. Nathaniel Symeonides Metropolitan of Chicago, b. 1978 consecrated 17 March 2018
3. Nicholas Condrea Metropolitan of the Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese of America and Canada, b. 1967 consecrated 14 July 2002
4. Theodosius Lazor Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1933–2020 consecrated 6 May 1967
5. Silvester Haruns Archbishop of Montréal and Canada, 1914–2000 consecrated 27 April 1952
6. Vladimir Tikhonitskii Metropolitan of Białystok, 1873–1959 consecrated 3 June 1907
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

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr