Theodore II Choreftakis

Life

Born

25 November 1954

Monastic tonsure

1972

Ordained deacon

1975

Ordained priest

23 April 1978

Consecrated bishop

17 June 1990

Made metropolitan

1997

Became patriarch

24 October 2004

Sees

1. 1990 – 1997

   Bishop of Cyrene

   Patriarchate of Alexandria

2. 1997 – 2002

   Metropolitan of Cameroon

   Patriarchate of Alexandria

3. 2002 – 24 October 2004

   Metropolitan of Zimbabwe

   Patriarchate of Alexandria

4. 24 October 2004 – present

   Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa

   Patriarchate of Alexandria

Consecration

Consecrated 17 June 1990 by:

• Parthenios III Koinides Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, 1919–1996

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 9 generations back to Paisios; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Theodore II Choreftakis Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa consecrated 17 June 1990
2. Parthenios III Koinides Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, 1919–1996 consecrated 5 December 1958
3. Parthenios Danielides Metropolitan of Pelusium, 1881–1964 consecrated 17 November 1919
4. Polyeuktos Kyriakides Metropolitan of Pelusium, 1874–1931 consecrated 30 November 1914
5. Christopher II Danielides Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, 1876–1967 consecrated 3 August 1908
6. Michael Triantaphyllides Metropolitan of Ptolemais, 1855–1914 consecrated 23 July 1900
7. Dionysios Stavrides Metropolitan of Silybria, 1852–1913 consecrated 23 October 1888
8. Kallinikos Metropolitan of Moglen, 1820–1911 consecrated 2 April 1872
9. Paisios Kourentis/Panagiotides Metropolitan of Imbros, 1830–1904 consecrated 22 December 1863
10. Paisios Metropolitan of Ephesus, 1778–1877 consecrated ca. 1819

Bishops he consecrated 45

• 27 January 1995Damaskinos Karpathakes Metropolitan of Didymoteixon, Orestias and Soufli, b. 1959
• 28 January 1995Alexios Vrionis Metropolitan of Nikaia, b. 1944
• 5 October 1996Serapheim Papakostas Metropolitan of Kastoria, cons. 1996
• 1 November 2006Meletios Kamiloudis/Gregoriates Metropolitan of Katanga, b. 1948
• 12 November 2006Nikodemos Priangelos Metropolitan of Memphis, b. 1967
• 11 October 2009Savvas Cheimonetos Metropolitan of Nubia, b. 1971
• 18 October 2009Nephon Tsavaris Metropolitan of Pelusium, b. 1959
• 5 September 2010Nestor Sirotenko Metropolitan of Stupino, b. 1974
• 17 October 2010John Tsaftaridis Metropolitan of Zambia and Mozambique, b. 1969
• 24 October 2010Nikephoros Konstantinou Metropolitan of Kinshasa, 1949–2021
• 2 December 2012Panteleimon Arathymos Metropolitan of Ptolemais, b. 1974
• 6 December 2012Innocent Byakatonda Bishop of Burundi and Rwanda, b. 1964
• 1 December 2013Narkissos Gammoh Metropolitan of Pelusium, b. 1968
• 30 November 2014Basil Varveles Bishop of Arsinoë, b. 1969
• 5 December 2014Meletios Koumanis Metropolitan of Carthage, b. 1970
• 6 December 2014Chrysostom Karagounis Bishop of Mozambique, 1960–2021
• 21 December 2014Neophytus Kongai Metropolitan of Eldoret, b. 1970
• 24 November 2015Athanasios Masaba Bishop of Kisumu and All Western Kenya, 1971–2019
• 27 March 2016Nikodemos Boulaxis Bishop of Nitria, b. 1960
• 11 December 2016Agathonicus Nikolaidis Metropolitan of Arusha and Central Tanzania, b. 1964
• 18 December 2016Theodore Dridakes Metropolitan of Brazzaville and Gabon, b. 1966
• 5 December 2018Daniel Biazes Metropolitan of Accra, b. 1977
• 16 December 2018Silvester Kisitu Bishop of Jinja and Eastern Uganda, b. 1982
• 23 December 2018Photios Chatzeantoniou Metropolitan of Lilongwe, b. 1954
• 13 January 2019Prodromos Katsoules Bishop of Toliara and Southern Madagascar, b. 1982
• 5 December 2019Mark Theodoses Bishop of Gaborone and Botswana, b. 1960
• 6 December 2019Peter Parginos Metropolitan of Axium, b. 1964
• 30 January 2022Cosmas Thasites Bishop of Constantianis, b. 1975
• 2 February 2022Chariton Musungai Bishop of Kananga, b. 1974
• 6 February 2022Themistokles Adamopoulos Bishop of Nicopolis, b. 1945
• 13 February 2022Nektarios Kabuye Bishop of Gulu and Northern Uganda, b. 1982
• 17 February 2022Nikodemos Totkas Metropolitan of Nigeria, b. 1975
• 20 February 2022Chrysostomos Maidones Bishop of Bukoba, b. 1956
• 15 January 2023Panaretos Kimani Bishop of Nyeri and Mount Kenya, b. 1985
• 25 February 2024Isaac Tsapoglou Bishop of Bujumbura and Burundi, b. 1967
• 3 March 2024Stephen Soulimiotis Bishop of Hippo, b. 1968
• 10 March 2024Polycarp Diamantopoulos Bishop of Bunia and Kisangani, b. 1973
• 30 March 2024Timothy Duba Musungai Bishop of Goma, b. 1972
• 31 March 2024Athanasios Kayebe Bishop of Benin and Togo, b. 1982
• 7 April 2024Constantine Bonabya Bishop of Juba and South Sudan, b. 1966
• 1 November 2025Damaskinos Al Azrai Bishop of Mareotis, b. 1987
• 2 November 2025Joachim Skretas Bishop of Kigali and Rwanda, b. 1960
• 25 November 2025Philip Mugandizi Bishop of Kisumu and All Western Kenya, b. 1968
• 5 December 2025Nephon Daskalakis Bishop of Mahajanga and Northern Madagascar, b. 1970
• 6 December 2025Timothy Kapsalis Bishop of Eleusis, b. 1966

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr
• wikidata.org

Also in: Wikidata