Maximos Papagiannes

Life

Born

1968

Consecrated bishop

28 June 2014

Made metropolitan

28 June 2014

Sees

1. 28 June 2014 – present

   Metropolitan of Ioannina

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 28 June 2014 by:

• Hieronymos II Liapis Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, b. 1938
• Eustathios Speliotes Metropolitan of Monemvasia and Sparta, b. 1940
• Alexios Vrionis Metropolitan of Nikaia, b. 1944
• Daniel Pourtsoukles Metropolitan of Kaisariani, Vyron and Ymittos, b. 1952
• Serapheim Mentzelopoulos Metropolitan of Peiraeus, b. 1956
• Dorotheos Polykandriotes Metropolitan of Syros, Tinos, Andros, Kea and Milos, b. 1963
• Makarios Philotheou Metropolitan of Siderokastron, b. 1952
• Nektarios Dovas Metropolitan of Corfu, Paxoi and the Diapontian Islands, b. 1953
• 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
• Theophilos Manolatos Metropolitan of Levkada and Ithaki, b. 1963
• George Mantzouranes Metropolitan of Thebes and Levadeia, b. 1952
• Athenagoras Dikaiakos Metropolitan of Ilion, Acharnes and Petroupolis, b. 1951
• Dionysios Siphnaios Metropolitan of Zakynthos and Strophades, b. 1954
• Cyril Misiakoules Metropolitan of Kephisia, Amarousios and Oropos, b. 1963
• Chrysostom Tsiringas Metropolitan of Nikopolis and Preveza, b. 1957
• Meliton Kavatsikles Metropolitan of Marathon, 1946–2016
• Athanasios Hatzopoulos Metropolitan of Achaia, b. 1950
• John Sakellariou Metropolitan of Thermopylai, b. 1940
• George Vladimirou Metropolitan of Conakry and Guinea, b. 1966
• Gabriel Papanikolaou Metropolitan of Nea Ionia and Philadelphia, b. 1976
• Anthony Avramiotes Metropolitan of Glyfada, Elliniko, Voula, Vouliagmeni and Vari, b. 1957
• Iakovos Bizaourtis Bishop of Thaumakos, b. 1948
• Theodoritos Polyzogopoulos Metropolitan of Laodicea, b. 1948
• Eumenios Tamiolakes Bishop of Levkada, b. 1945
• Cyril Katerelos Metropolitan of Krinis, b. 1956
• Joseph Bosch Metropolitan of Buenos Aires, b. 1976

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. Maximos Papagiannes Metropolitan of Ioannina consecrated 28 June 2014
2. Eumenios Tamiolakes Bishop of Levkada, b. 1945 consecrated 15 January 1994
3. Augustine Lambardakis Metropolitan of Germany, b. 1938 consecrated 26 March 1972
4. Emilianos Timiadis Metropolitan of Silybria, 1916–2008 consecrated 25 September 1960
5. Cassian Bezobrazov Bishop of Catania, 1892–1965 consecrated 28 July 1947
6. Vladimir Tikhonitskii Metropolitan of Białystok, 1873–1959 consecrated 3 June 1907
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 14

• 29 June 2014Chariton Toumbas Metropolitan of Elassona and Deskate, b. 1975
• 30 June 2014Timothy Anthes Metropolitan of Thessaliotis and Phanariopharsala, b. 1964
• 11 October 2014Constantine Giakoumakes Metropolitan of Megara and Salamina, b. 1960
• 12 October 2014David Tzioumakas Metropolitan of Grevena, b. 1958
• 10 October 2015Demetrios Argyros Metropolitan of Kefalonia, b. 1958
• 11 October 2015Chrysostom Nases Metropolitan of Trikki, Gardiki and Pyli, b. 1975
• 7 October 2017Theokletos Lambrinakos Metropolitan of Stagoi and Meteora, b. 1967
• 8 October 2017Stephen Tolios Metropolitan of Filippoi, Neapolis and Thasos, b. 1960
• 10 February 2018Chrysostom Papathanasiou Metropolitan of Mani, b. 1950
• 11 February 2018Symeon Voliotes Metropolitan of Phthiotis, b. 1977
• 15 October 2019Philotheos Theochares Metropolitan of Thessaloniki, b. 1977
• 20 March 2022Gregory Tsoutsoules Bishop of Abydos, cons. 2022
• 19 October 2025Nikodemos Farmakis Bishop of Epidauros, b. 1971
• 20 October 2025Theologos Alexandrakis Bishop of Talantion, b. 1974