Theokletos Passales

Life

Born

1932

Ordained deacon

22 October 1967

Monastic tonsure

20 November 1967

Ordained priest

7 March 1968

Made archimandrite

7 March 1968

Elected bishop

21 January 2000

Consecrated bishop

23 January 2000

Made metropolitan

23 January 2000

Retired

25 August 2023 (resignation submitted 2023-08-21, accepted by the Holy Synod 2023-08-25)

Sees

1. 23 January 2000 – 25 August 2023

   Metropolitan of Florina, Prespa and Eordaia

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 25 August 2023 – present

   Former Metropolitan of Florina, Prespa and Eordaia

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 23 January 2000 by:

• Christodoulos Paraskevaides Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1939–2008
• Serapheim Stephanou Metropolitan of Stagoi and Meteora, 1932–2017
• Dionysios Ladopoulos Metropolitan of Neapolis and Stavroupolis, 1929–2008
• Anthimos Roussas Metropolitan of Thessaloniki, b. 1934
• Ambrose Lenes Former Metropolitan of Kalavryta and Aigialeia, b. 1938
• Meletios Kalamaras Metropolitan of Nikopolis and Preveza, 1933–2012
• Eustathios Speliotes Metropolitan of Monemvasia and Sparta, b. 1940
• Maximos Xydas Metropolitan of Serrai and Nigrita, 1942–2003
• Panteleimon Kalpakides Metropolitan of Veroia, Naousa and Kampania, b. 1945
• Hierotheos Vlachos Metropolitan of Nafpaktos and Agios Vlasios, b. 1944
• Basil Kolokas Metropolitan of Elassona, 1953–2014
• Eusebios Pistoles Metropolitan of Samos and Ikaria, b. 1949
• Serapheim Papakostas Metropolitan of Kastoria, cons. 1996
• Ambrose Giakalis Metropolitan of Photike, 1940–2016
• Daniel Pourtsoukles Metropolitan of Kaisariani, Vyron and Ymittos, b. 1952

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. Theokletos Passales Metropolitan of Florina, Prespa and Eordaia consecrated 23 January 2000
2. Anthimos Roussas Metropolitan of Thessaloniki, b. 1934 consecrated 14 July 1974
3. Gabriel Kalokairinos Metropolitan of Thera, Amorgos and Nisoi, 1910–1983 consecrated 17 November 1957
4. Maximos Tsaouses Metropolitan of Sardis, 1914–1986 consecrated 16 June 1946
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

• 20 March 2011Elpidophoros Lambriniadis Archbishop of America, b. 1967
• 1 March 2014George Chrysostomou Metropolitan of Kitros, Katerini and Platamon, b. 1964
• 12 October 2014David Tzioumakas Metropolitan of Grevena, b. 1958
• 1 June 2015Justin Bardakas Metropolitan of Nea Krini and Kalamaria, b. 1969
• 10 October 2015Demetrios Argyros Metropolitan of Kefalonia, b. 1958
• 11 October 2015Chrysostom Nases Metropolitan of Trikki, Gardiki and Pyli, b. 1975

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr