Chrysostom Themelis

Life

Born

1918

Ordained deacon

1944

Ordained priest

1945

Consecrated bishop

21 November 1957

Made metropolitan

17 November 1965

Died

28 February 2007

Sees

1. 21 November 1957 – 17 November 1965

   Bishop of Thaumakos

   Vicar of Athens · Church of Greece

2. 17 November 1965 – 28 February 2007

   Metropolitan of Messenia

   Church of Greece

Consecration

Consecrated 21 November 1957 by:

• Theokletos II Panagiotopoulos Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1889–1962
• Iakovos III Vavanatsos Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1895–1984
• Panteleimon Papageorgiou Metropolitan of Thessaloniki, 1902–1979
• Chrysostom Daskalakes Metropolitan of Messenia, 1906–1961
• Iakovos Kleomvrotos Metropolitan of Mytilini, Eressos and Plomarion, 1907–1987
• Alexios Ingleses Metropolitan of Zakynthos, 1911–1966
• Dionysios Psarianos Metropolitan of Servia and Kozani, 1912–1997
• Iakovos Coucouzes Former Archbishop of North and South America, 1911–2005

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. Chrysostom Themelis Metropolitan of Messenia consecrated 21 November 1957
2. Iakovos Coucouzes Former Archbishop of North and South America, 1911–2005 consecrated 6 February 1955
3. Maximos Tsaouses Metropolitan of Sardis, 1914–1986 consecrated 16 June 1946
4. Polycarp Demetriades Metropolitan of Prousa, 1892–1953 consecrated 25 December 1927
5. Alexander Nemolovsky Metropolitan of Brussels and Belgium, 1876–1960 consecrated 28 November 1909
6. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
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 9

• 24 November 1957Chrysostom Venetopoulos Metropolitan of Fokis, 1913–1986
• 26 May 1974Prokopios Georgantopoulos Metropolitan of Nea Smyrni and Kalamaria, 1932–2015
• 27 May 1974Spyridon Kyvetos Metropolitan of Zichnai and Nevrokopion, 1919–2003
• 30 May 1974Damaskinos Roumeliotes Metropolitan of Maroneia and Komotini, 1920–2012
• 11 November 1979Dionysios Bairaktaris Metropolitan of Chios, Psara and Oinoussa, 1927–2011
• 2 March 1980Iakovos Korozes Metropolitan of Kythira, 1927–2009
• 31 August 1980Eustathios Speliotes Metropolitan of Monemvasia and Sparta, b. 1940
• 4 October 1981Hieronymos II Liapis Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, b. 1938
• 22 January 2000Daniel Pourtsoukles Metropolitan of Kaisariani, Vyron and Ymittos, b. 1952