Theodore Meimaris

Life

Born

1 March 1979

Monastic tonsure

18 April 2003

Ordained deacon

19 April 2003

Ordained priest

21 March 2021

Consecrated bishop

25 December 2023

Sees

1. 25 December 2023 – present

   Metropolitan of Seleucia

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 25 December 2023 by:

• Bartholomew I Archondonis Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, b. 1940
• Emmanuel Adamakis Senior Metropolitan of Chalcedon, b. 1958
• Eireneos Ioannides Metropolitan of Myriofytos and Peristasi, b. 1951
• Theoleptos Phenerles Metropolitan of Iconium, 1957–2026
• George Vladimirou Metropolitan of Conakry and Guinea, b. 1966
• Andrew Nanankes Metropolitan of Arkalochorion, Kastelion and Viannos, b. 1957
• Job Getcha Metropolitan of Pisidia, b. 1974
• Andrew Sophianopoulos Metropolitan of Saranta Ecclesies, b. 1975
• Joachim Billes Metropolitan of Prousa, b. 1972
• Nektarios Selalmatzides Archbishop of Anthidona, b. 1962

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 11 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Theodore Meimaris Metropolitan of Seleucia consecrated 25 December 2023
2. Bartholomew I Archondonis Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, b. 1940 consecrated 25 December 1973
3. Chrysostom Koronaios Metropolitan of Neocaesarea, 1894–1976 consecrated 7 May 1944
4. Polycarp Demetriades Metropolitan of Prousa, 1892–1953 consecrated 25 December 1927
5. Alexander Nemolovsky Metropolitan of Brussels and Belgium, 1876–1960 consecrated 28 November 1909
6. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
7. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
8. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
9. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
10. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
11. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
12. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 3

• 2 February 2024Iakovos Andriopoulos Metropolitan of Mexico, b. 1992
• 7 February 2026Titos Tabakakis Metropolitan of Kydonia and Apokoronos, b. 1976
• 31 May 2026Panaretos Psaraftis Bishop of Tamisos, b. 1980

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr