Gregory Papathomas

Life

Born

9 September 1960

Monastic tonsure

8 February 1998

Ordained deacon

8 February 1998

Ordained priest

22 February 1998

Made archimandrite

22 February 1998

Elected bishop

8 October 2021

Consecrated bishop

17 October 2021

Sees

1. 17 October 2021 – present

   Metropolitan of Peristerion

   Church of Greece

Consecration

Consecrated 17 October 2021 by:

• Hieronymos II Liapis Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, b. 1938
• Ignatios Georgakopoulos Metropolitan of Demetrias and Almyros, b. 1956
• Nicholas Chatzenikolaou Metropolitan of Mesogaia and Lavreotika, b. 1954
• Chrysostom Savvatos Metropolitan of Messenia, b. 1961
• Athenagoras Dikaiakos Metropolitan of Ilion, Acharnes and Petroupolis, b. 1951
• George Chrysostomou Metropolitan of Kitros, Katerini and Platamon, b. 1964
• Symeon Voliotes Metropolitan of Phthiotis, b. 1977

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 13 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Gregory Papathomas Metropolitan of Peristerion consecrated 17 October 2021
2. Ignatios Georgakopoulos Metropolitan of Demetrias and Almyros, b. 1956 consecrated 10 October 1998
3. Anthimos Roussas Metropolitan of Thessaloniki, b. 1934 consecrated 14 July 1974
4. Gabriel Kalokairinos Metropolitan of Thera, Amorgos and Nisoi, 1910–1983 consecrated 17 November 1957
5. Maximos Tsaouses Metropolitan of Sardis, 1914–1986 consecrated 16 June 1946
6. Polycarp Demetriades Metropolitan of Prousa, 1892–1953 consecrated 25 December 1927
7. Alexander Nemolovsky Metropolitan of Brussels and Belgium, 1876–1960 consecrated 28 November 1909
8. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
9. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
10. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
11. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
12. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
13. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
14. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 2

• 12 January 2025Damaskinos Olkinuora Bishop of Haapsalu, b. 1985
• 14 January 2026Andrew Noorhani Bishop of Tartu, b. 1961

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr