Kallinikos Demenopoulos

Life

Born

1959

Ordained deacon

25 October 1986

Ordained priest

29 October 1989

Made archimandrite

29 October 1989

Made metropolitan

2008

Elected bishop

24 June 2008

Consecrated bishop

30 June 2008

Sees

1. 2008 – present

   Metropolitan of Paronaxia

   Church of Greece

Consecration

Consecrated 30 June 2008 by:

• Hieronymos II Liapis Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, b. 1938
• Meletios Kalamaras Metropolitan of Nikopolis and Preveza, 1933–2012
• Eustathios Speliotes Metropolitan of Monemvasia and Sparta, b. 1940
• Germanos Paraskevopoulos Metropolitan of Eleia and Oleni, 1932–2023
• Alexander Papadopoulos Metropolitan of Mantineia and Kynouria, b. 1936
• Joseph Harkiolakis Metropolitan of Proikonnisos, b. 1955
• Eusebios Pistoles Metropolitan of Samos and Ikaria, b. 1949
• Nicholas Protopapas Metropolitan of Phthiotis, 1948–2019
• Daniel Pourtsoukles Metropolitan of Kaisariani, Vyron and Ymittos, b. 1952
• Ephrem Stenakis Metropolitan of Ydra, Spetsai, Aigina, Poros, Troizena and Methana, b. 1948
• Serapheim Mentzelopoulos Metropolitan of Peiraeus, b. 1956
• Dorotheos Polykandriotes Metropolitan of Syros, Tinos, Andros, Kea and Milos, b. 1963
• Symeon Koutsas Metropolitan of Nea Smyrni, b. 1945
• Joel Phrangakos Metropolitan of Edessa, Pella and Almopia, b. 1949
• Hierotheos Tsoliakos Metropolitan of Zichnai and Nevrokopion, b. 1945
• Nicholas Chatzenikolaou Metropolitan of Mesogaia and Lavreotika, b. 1954
• Chrysostom Sklephas Metropolitan of Patrai, b. 1958
• Serapheim Stergioules Metropolitan of Kythira, b. 1950
• Cosmas Papachristou/Papachristos Metropolitan of Aitolia and Acarnania, 1945–2022
• Paul Ioannou Metropolitan of Sisanion and Siatista, 1947–2019
• Chrysostom Stavropoulos Metropolitan of Triphylia and Olympia, b. 1959
• Theophilos Manolatos Metropolitan of Levkada and Ithaki, b. 1963
• George Mantzouranes Metropolitan of Thebes and Levadeia, b. 1952

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. Kallinikos Demenopoulos Metropolitan of Paronaxia consecrated 30 June 2008
2. Germanos Paraskevopoulos Metropolitan of Eleia and Oleni, 1932–2023 consecrated 3 October 1981
3. Iakovos Korozes Metropolitan of Kythira, 1927–2009 consecrated 2 March 1980
4. Gabriel Kalokairinos Metropolitan of Thera, Amorgos and Nisoi, 1910–1983 consecrated 17 November 1957
5. Maximos Tsaouses Metropolitan of Sardis, 1914–1986 consecrated 16 June 1946
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

Bishops he consecrated 4

• 17 October 2009Emmanuel Sigalas Metropolitan of Poliana and Kilkis, 1953–2021
• 23 March 2019Athanasios Yannousas Metropolitan of Sisanion and Siatista, b. 1971
• 24 March 2019Agapios Dritsas Bishop of Kegchreon, b. 1959
• 15 October 2024Stephen Devrelis Bishop of Almopia, b. 1972

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr