Silouan Foteineas

Life

Born

1978

Ordained deacon

1 December 2002

Ordained priest

25 October 2003

Made archimandrite

4 June 2006

Consecrated bishop

19 January 2020

Sees

1. 19 January 2020 – 17 July 2024

   Bishop of Sinope

   Vicar of Australia · Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 17 July 2024 – present

   Bishop of Adelaide

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 19 January 2020 by:

• Makarios Griniezakes Archbishop of Australia, b. 1973
• Serapheim Ginis Metropolitan of Sebastea, b. 1949
• Ignatios Sennis Metropolitan of Antananarivo, b. 1951
• Ambrose Zografos Metropolitan of Korea, b. 1960
• Nektarios Tsilis Metropolitan of Hong Kong, b. 1969
• Nathaniel Symeonides Metropolitan of Chicago, b. 1978
• Myron Ktistakes Metropolitan of New Zealand, b. 1969
• Ezekiel Kefalas Bishop of Dervis, b. 1938
• Iakovos Tsigounis Bishop of Miletoupolis, b. 1966
• Emilianos Koutouzes Bishop of Meloa, b. 1971

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. Silouan Foteineas Bishop of Adelaide consecrated 19 January 2020
2. Myron Ktistakes Metropolitan of New Zealand, b. 1969 consecrated 11 July 2018
3. Bartholomew I Archondonis Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, b. 1940 consecrated 25 December 1973
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 6

• 13 November 2021Kyriakos Michael Bishop of Melbourne, b. 1959
• 14 November 2021Christodoulos Economou Bishop of Magnesia, b. 1978
• 20 November 2021Eumenios Vasilopoulos Bishop of Chora, b. 1981
• 21 November 2021Bartholomew Anastasiades Bishop of Brisbane, b. 1980
• 27 September 2025Athenagoras Karakonstantakis Bishop of Canberra, b. 1984
• 28 September 2025Christopher Krikelis Bishop of Kerasounta, b. 1981

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr