Evangelos Kourounis

Life

Born

20 September 1961

Ordained deacon

1 February 1987

Ordained priest

30 July 1989

Made archimandrite

30 March 1991

Consecrated bishop

10 May 2003

Sees

1. 10 May 2003 – 8 October 2020

   Metropolitan of New Jersey

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 8 October 2020 – present

   Metropolitan of Sardis

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 10 May 2003 by:

• Demetrios Trakatellis Archbishop of America, b. 1928
• Iakovos Coucouzes Former Archbishop of North and South America, 1911–2005
• Methodios Tournas Metropolitan of Boston, b. 1946
• Alexios Panagiotopoulos Metropolitan of Atlanta, b. 1943

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. Evangelos Kourounis Metropolitan of Sardis consecrated 10 May 2003
2. Iakovos Coucouzes Former Archbishop of North and South America, 1911–2005 consecrated 6 February 1955
3. Maximos Tsaouses Metropolitan of Sardis, 1914–1986 consecrated 16 June 1946
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 1

• 17 March 2018Nathaniel Symeonides Metropolitan of Chicago, b. 1978

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr

Also in: Wikidata