Christopher Kontogeorgios

Life

Born

1895

Consecrated bishop

10 February 1934

Made metropolitan

1948

Died

31 August 1951

Sees

1. 10 February 1934 – 1948

   Bishop of Philadelphia

   Patriarchate of Alexandria

2. 1948 – 31 August 1951

   Metropolitan of Pentapolis

   Exarch of America · Patriarchate of Alexandria

Consecration

Consecrated 10 February 1934 by:

• Sofronii Bishara/Bashira/Beshara Bishop of Los Angeles, 1888–1940
• Teofan Noli Bishop of Körçe, Metropolitan of Durrës, 1882–1965

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. Christopher Kontogeorgios Metropolitan of Pentapolis consecrated 10 February 1934
2. Sofronii Bishara/Bashira/Beshara Bishop of Los Angeles, 1888–1940 consecrated 26 May 1928
3. Emmanuel Abou-Hatab Bishop of Montréal, 1890–1933 consecrated 11 September 1927
4. Aftimios Ofiesh Former Archbishop of Brooklyn, 1880–1966 consecrated 13 May 1917
5. Innocent Pustynskii Archbishop of Tashkent and Türkıstan, 1868–1937 consecrated 14 December 1903
6. Vladimir Bogoyavlenskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1848–1918 consecrated 13 June 1888
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 3

• 26 October 1921John Theodorovich Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in North America, 1887–1971
• 25 August 1934Arsenios Saltas Bishop of Exarch of America, d. 1955
• 25 August 1934Nicholas Kedrovsky/Kedroff Archbishop of the Aleutian Islands and North America, 1902–1944