John Ananiashvili

Life

Born

5 January 1948

Monastic tonsure

12 October 1973

Ordained priest

25 November 1973

Made archimandrite

1976

Consecrated bishop

25 February 1978

Made archbishop

10 July 1979

Defrocked

1983

Made metropolitan

2 August 2010

Sees

1. 25 February 1978 – 14 December 1978

   Bishop of Chkondidi

   Patriarchate of Georgia

2. 14 December 1978 – 10 July 1979

   Bishop of Tsilkani

   Patriarchate of Georgia

3. 10 July 1979 – 1980

   Archbishop of Tsilkani

   Patriarchate of Georgia

4. 1980 – 12 May 1992

   Archbishop of Manglisi

   Patriarchate of Georgia

5. 12 May 1992 – 17 September 1995

   Archbishop of Tsageri and Lechkhumi-Svaneti

   Patriarchate of Georgia

6. 17 September 1995 – 18 August 2003

   Archbishop of Bolnisi and Dmanisi

   Patriarchate of Georgia

7. 18 August 2003 – 27 June 2005

   Archbishop of Bolnisi

   Patriarchate of Georgia

8. 27 June 2005 – 2 August 2010

   Archbishop of Tianeti and Pshav-Khevsureti

   Patriarchate of Georgia

9. 2 August 2010 – 11 October 2013

   Metropolitan of Tianeti and Pshav-Khevsureti

   Patriarchate of Georgia

10. 11 October 2013 – present

    Metropolitan of Marabda

    Patriarchate of Georgia

Consecration

Consecrated 25 February 1978 by:

• Elias II Ghudushauri-Shiolashvili Catholicos and Patriarch of All Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta and Tbilisi, b. 1933
• Zinobi Majuga Metropolitan of Tetritskaro, 1896–1985
• George Gongadze Metropolitan of Tsilkani, 1894–1982
• Gregory Tsertsvadze Metropolitan of Alaverdi, 1910–1991
• Nicholas Makharadze Metropolitan of Tsilkani, 1932–2008

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 4 generations back to Ambrose Khelaya; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. John Ananiashvili Metropolitan of Marabda consecrated 25 February 1978
2. Elias II Ghudushauri-Shiolashvili Catholicos and Patriarch of All Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta and Tbilisi, b. 1933 consecrated 26 August 1963
3. Ephrem II Sidamonidze Catholicos and Patriarch of All Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta and Tbilisi, 1896–1972 consecrated 2 October 1927
4. Christopher III Tsitskishvili Catholicos and Patriarch of All Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta and Tbilisi, 1873–1932 consecrated 1921
5. Ambrose Khelaya Catholicos and Patriarch of All Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta and Tbilisi, 1861–1927 consecrated 15 October 1917

Bishops he consecrated 1

• 15 March 1981Ananias Djaparidze Metropolitan of Manglisi and Tetritskaro, b. 1949

Sources

Death date 1998-07-31 removed 2026-11-04: it contradicts the see history, which runs to Marabda from 2013-10-11. Actual status not found.