Barnabas Theoharis

Life

Born

1975

Ordained deacon

2000

Ordained priest

2004

Consecrated bishop

18 October 2025

Sees

1. 18 October 2025 – present

   Bishop of Christoupolis

   Church of Greece

Consecration

Consecrated 18 October 2025 by:

• Ephrem Stenakis Metropolitan of Ydra, Spetsai, Aigina, Poros, Troizena and Methana, b. 1948
• Serapheim Mentzelopoulos Metropolitan of Peiraeus, b. 1956
• Nicholas Chatzenikolaou Metropolitan of Mesogaia and Lavreotika, b. 1954
• Cyril Misiakoules Metropolitan of Kephisia, Amarousios and Oropos, b. 1963
• Gabriel Papanikolaou Metropolitan of Nea Ionia and Philadelphia, b. 1976
• Hieronymos Nikopoulos Metropolitan of Larisa and Tyrnavos, b. 1971
• Philotheos Theochares Metropolitan of Thessaloniki, b. 1977
• Bartholomew Antoniou-Triantaphyllides Metropolitan of Poliana and Kilkis, b. 1969
• Constantios Panagiotakopoulos Bishop of Androusa, b. 1960

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 13 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Barnabas Theoharis Bishop of Christoupolis consecrated 18 October 2025
2. Ephrem Stenakis Metropolitan of Ydra, Spetsai, Aigina, Poros, Troizena and Methana, b. 1948 consecrated 14 January 2001
3. Paisios Loulourgas Metropolitan of Tyana, b. 1945 consecrated 11 April 1998
4. Kallinikos Alexandrides Metropolitan of Lystra, 1926–2014 consecrated 6 December 1970
5. Chrysostom Koronaios Metropolitan of Neocaesarea, 1894–1976 consecrated 7 May 1944
6. Polycarp Demetriades Metropolitan of Prousa, 1892–1953 consecrated 25 December 1927
7. Alexander Nemolovsky Metropolitan of Brussels and Belgium, 1876–1960 consecrated 28 November 1909
8. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
9. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
10. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
11. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
12. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
13. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
14. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr