Andon Merdani

Life

Born

7 December 1969

Monastic tonsure

22 April 2000

Ordained deacon

22 April 2000

Ordained priest

21 November 2002

Consecrated bishop

21 November 2006

Made metropolitan

7 April 2016

Sees

1. 21 November 2006 – 7 April 2016

   Bishop of Kruja

   Church of Albania

2. 7 April 2016 – present

   Metropolitan of Elbasan, Shpat and Librazhd

   Church of Albania

Consecration

Consecrated 21 November 2006 by:

• Anastasios Yannoulatos Archbishop of Tirana, Durrës and All Albania, b. 1929
• Ignatios Triantis Metropolitan of Berat, Vlorë and Kaninë, 1934–2024
• John Pelushi Archbishop of Tirana, Durrës and All Albania, b. 1956
• Demetrios Dikbasanis Metropolitan of Gjirokastër, b. 1940
• Nicholas Hyka Metropolitan of Apollonia, b. 1972

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. Andon Merdani Metropolitan of Elbasan, Shpat and Librazhd consecrated 21 November 2006
2. Anastasios Yannoulatos Archbishop of Tirana, Durrës and All Albania, b. 1929 consecrated 1972
3. Chrysostom Venetopoulos Metropolitan of Fokis, 1913–1986 consecrated 24 November 1957
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

Sources

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