Serapion Mihalakis

Life

Born

1967

Ordained deacon

1991

Ordained priest

1994

Elected bishop

9 October 2023

Consecrated bishop

21 October 2023

Sees

1. 21 October 2023 – present

   Metropolitan of Paramythia, Filiates and Giromeri

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 21 October 2023 by:

• Hieronymos II Liapis Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, b. 1938
• Hierotheos Tsoliakos Metropolitan of Zichnai and Nevrokopion, b. 1945
• Dionysios Mantalos Metropolitan of Corinth, Sikion, Zemenon, Tarsus and Polyfengos, b. 1952
• Chrysostom Savvatos Metropolitan of Messenia, b. 1961
• Cyril Misiakoules Metropolitan of Kephisia, Amarousios and Oropos, b. 1963
• Gabriel Papanikolaou Metropolitan of Nea Ionia and Philadelphia, b. 1976
• Timothy Anthes Metropolitan of Thessaliotis and Phanariopharsala, b. 1964
• Constantine Giakoumakes Metropolitan of Megara and Salamina, 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. Serapion Mihalakis Metropolitan of Paramythia, Filiates and Giromeri consecrated 21 October 2023
2. Gabriel Papanikolaou Metropolitan of Nea Ionia and Philadelphia, b. 1976 consecrated 9 October 2011
3. Elpidophoros Lambriniadis Archbishop of America, b. 1967 consecrated 20 March 2011
4. Hilarion Alfeyev Metropolitan of Budapest and Hungary, b. 1966 consecrated 14 January 2002
5. Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003 consecrated 23 May 1963
6. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
7. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
8. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
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

Bishops he consecrated 4

• 22 October 2023Eireneos Laftsis Metropolitan of Florina, Prespa and Eordaia, b. 1974
• 12 November 2023Nektarios Paraskevakos Bishop of Karyopolis, b. 1955
• 12 October 2025John Karamouzis Bishop of Skiathos, b. 1973
• 30 November 2025Anthony Patros Bishop of Rodostolon, b. 1964

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr