Joachim Archondos

Life

Born

7 April 1964

Monastic tonsure

11 November 1990

Ordained deacon

23 August 1991

Ordained priest

11 November 1991

Made archimandrite

1994

Consecrated bishop

26 January 2020

Sees

1. 26 January 2020 – present

   Bishop of Apollonia

   Vicar of Belgium · Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 26 January 2020 by:

• Athenagoras Peckstadt Metropolitan of Belgium, b. 1962
• Cyril Misiakoules Metropolitan of Kephisia, Amarousios and Oropos, b. 1963
• Chrysostom Papathomas/Kykkotis Metropolitan of Kyrenia, b. 1970
• Job Getcha Metropolitan of Pisidia, b. 1974
• Dositheos Bogveradze Bishop of Belgium and the Netherlands, b. 1964
• Bartholomew Kessidis Bishop of Arianzos, b. 1968
• Porphyrios Machairotes Bishop of Neapolis, b. 1966

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. Joachim Archondos Bishop of Apollonia consecrated 26 January 2020
2. Job Getcha Metropolitan of Pisidia, b. 1974 consecrated 30 November 2013
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

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr