Athanasios Hatzopoulos

Life

Born

17 October 1950

Ordained deacon

1991

Ordained priest

1991

Elected bishop

13 October 2000

Consecrated bishop

15 October 2000

Made metropolitan

5 August 2007

Sees

1. 15 October 2000 – 5 August 2007

   Bishop of Achaia

   Church of Greece

2. 5 August 2007 – present

   Metropolitan of Achaia

   Church of Greece

Consecration

Consecrated 15 October 2000 by:

• Christodoulos Paraskevaides Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1939–2008
• Euthymios Stylios Metropolitan of Achelos, 1929–2019
• Kallinikos Karousos Metropolitan of Peiraeus, 1926–2020
• Eusebios Pistoles Metropolitan of Samos and Ikaria, b. 1949
• Ignatios Georgakopoulos Metropolitan of Demetrias and Almyros, b. 1956
• John Sakellariou Metropolitan of Thermopylai, b. 1940

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 Hatzopoulos Metropolitan of Achaia consecrated 15 October 2000
2. Ignatios Georgakopoulos Metropolitan of Demetrias and Almyros, b. 1956 consecrated 10 October 1998
3. Anthimos Roussas Metropolitan of Thessaloniki, b. 1934 consecrated 14 July 1974
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 1

• 28 June 2014Maximos Papagiannes Metropolitan of Ioannina, b. 1968

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr

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