Athanasios Bachos

Life

Born

10 February 1954

Ordained deacon

1976

Ordained priest

5 September 1982

Elected bishop

13 October 2009

Consecrated bishop

1 November 2009

Made metropolitan

7 October 2022

Sees

1. 1 November 2009 – 7 October 2022

   Bishop of Oleni

   Vicar of Eleia · Church of Greece

2. 7 October 2022 – present

   Metropolitan of Eleia

   Church of Greece

Consecration

Consecrated 1 November 2009 by:

• Hieronymos II Liapis Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, b. 1938
• Chrysostom Synetos Metropolitan of Dodoni, b. 1939
• Eustathios Speliotes Metropolitan of Monemvasia and Sparta, b. 1940
• Germanos Paraskevopoulos Metropolitan of Eleia and Oleni, 1932–2023
• Alexander Papadopoulos Metropolitan of Mantineia and Kynouria, b. 1936
• Chrysostom Stavropoulos Metropolitan of Triphylia and Olympia, b. 1959
• George Mantzouranes Metropolitan of Thebes and Levadeia, b. 1952
• Theodoritos Tsirigotes Metropolitan of Elaia, b. 1941

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. Athanasios Bachos Bishop of Oleni consecrated 1 November 2009
2. Germanos Paraskevopoulos Metropolitan of Eleia and Oleni, 1932–2023 consecrated 3 October 1981
3. Iakovos Korozes Metropolitan of Kythira, 1927–2009 consecrated 2 March 1980
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 4

• 13 October 2014Chrysanthos Stellatos Bishop of Kernitsa, b. 1952
• 12 February 2018Constantios Panagiotakopoulos Bishop of Androusa, b. 1960
• 24 March 2019Agapios Dritsas Bishop of Kegchreon, b. 1959
• 19 October 2024Sophronios Gutzinis Bishop of Polystylon, b. 1967

Sources

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