Chrysostom Pitsis

Life

Born

31 March 1967

Monastic tonsure

7 April 1985

Ordained deacon

8 April 1991

Ordained priest

25 September 1995

Consecrated bishop

7 February 2018

Made metropolitan

7 February 2018

Sees

1. 7 February 2018 – present

   Metropolitan of Symi

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 7 February 2018 by:

• Bartholomew I Archondonis Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, b. 1940
• Demetrios Kommatas Metropolitan of the Princes' Islands, b. 1952
• Cyril Kogerakis Metropolitan of Rhodes, b. 1964
• Nathaniel Diakopanagiotes Metropolitan of Kos and Nisyros, b. 1960
• Stephen Dinides Metropolitan of Kallioupolis and Madytos, b. 1968
• Elpidophoros Lambriniadis Archbishop of America, b. 1967
• Cyril Diamantakes Metropolitan of Ierapytna and Sitia, b. 1971

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. Chrysostom Pitsis Metropolitan of Symi consecrated 7 February 2018
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 2

• 23 October 2023Theophilos Mantzavrakos Bishop of Lakedaimon, b. 1976
• 30 November 2025Anthony Patros Bishop of Rodostolon, b. 1964

Sources

Also in: Wikidata