Cosmas Papachristou/Papachristos

Life

Born

1945

Ordained deacon

1974

Ordained priest

1974

Consecrated bishop

8 October 2005

Died

3 January 2022

Sees

1. 8 October 2005 – 3 January 2022

   Metropolitan of Aitolia and Acarnania

   Church of Greece

Consecration

Consecrated 8 October 2005 by:

• Christodoulos Paraskevaides Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1939–2008

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 2 generations back to Serapheim Tikas; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Cosmas Papachristou/Papachristos Metropolitan of Aitolia and Acarnania consecrated 8 October 2005
2. Christodoulos Paraskevaides Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1939–2008 consecrated 14 July 1974
3. Serapheim Tikas Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1913–1998 consecrated 11 September 1949

Bishops he consecrated 5

• 9 October 2005Paul Apostolides Metropolitan of Drama, 1963–2022
• 30 June 2008Kallinikos Demenopoulos Metropolitan of Paronaxia, b. 1959
• 24 February 2013Panteleimon Moutaphes Metropolitan of Maroneia and Komotini, b. 1970
• 13 October 2014Chrysanthos Stellatos Bishop of Kernitsa, b. 1952
• 10 February 2018Chrysostom Papathanasiou Metropolitan of Mani, b. 1950