Panaretos Kimani

Life

Born

1985

Ordained deacon

1 May 2010

Ordained priest

2 January 2011

Monastic tonsure

9 September 2011

Made archimandrite

11 November 2015

Consecrated bishop

15 January 2023

Sees

1. 15 January 2023 – present

   Bishop of Nyeri and Mount Kenya

   Patriarchate of Alexandria

Consecration

Consecrated 15 January 2023 by:

• Theodore II Choreftakis Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, b. 1954
• Isaiah Kykkotis Metropolitan of Tamasos and Orini, b. 1971
• Panteleimon Arathymos Metropolitan of Ptolemais, b. 1974
• Narkissos Gammoh Metropolitan of Pelusium, b. 1968
• Germanos Galanes Metropolitan of Tamiathis, b. 1951
• Neophytus Kongai Metropolitan of Eldoret, b. 1970

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 14 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Panaretos Kimani Bishop of Nyeri and Mount Kenya consecrated 15 January 2023
2. Panteleimon Arathymos Metropolitan of Ptolemais, b. 1974 consecrated 2 December 2012
3. Savvas Cheimonetos Metropolitan of Nubia, b. 1971 consecrated 11 October 2009
4. Cyril Kogerakis Metropolitan of Rhodes, b. 1964 consecrated 25 April 2004
5. Bartholomew I Archondonis Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, b. 1940 consecrated 25 December 1973
6. Chrysostom Koronaios Metropolitan of Neocaesarea, 1894–1976 consecrated 7 May 1944
7. Polycarp Demetriades Metropolitan of Prousa, 1892–1953 consecrated 25 December 1927
8. Alexander Nemolovsky Metropolitan of Brussels and Belgium, 1876–1960 consecrated 28 November 1909
9. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
10. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
11. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
12. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
13. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
14. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
15. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 1

• 25 November 2025Philip Mugandizi Bishop of Kisumu and All Western Kenya, b. 1968