Nikephoros Konstantinou

Life

Born

1949

Monastic tonsure

1971

Ordained deacon

22 August 1971

Ordained priest

1978

Consecrated bishop

24 October 2010

Made metropolitan

24 October 2010

Died

27 July 2021

Sees

1. 24 October 2010 – 24 November 2015

   Metropolitan of Central Africa

   Patriarchate of Alexandria

2. 24 November 2015 – 27 July 2021

   Metropolitan of Kinshasa

   Patriarchate of Alexandria

Consecration

Consecrated 24 October 2010 by:

• Theodore II Choreftakis Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, b. 1954
• Demetrios Kommatas Metropolitan of the Princes' Islands, b. 1952
• Kallinikos Pippas Metropolitan of Pelusium, d. 2013
• Panteleimon Kalpakides Metropolitan of Veroia, Naousa and Kampania, b. 1945
• Panteleimon Kalaphates Metropolitan of Xanthi and Peritheorion, b. 1943
• Basil Kolokas Metropolitan of Elassona, 1953–2014
• Ignatios Mandelides Metropolitan of Pentapolis, 1930–2017
• Damaskinos Papagiannakes Metropolitan of Kydonia and Apokoronos, b. 1958
• Meletios Kamiloudis/Gregoriates Metropolitan of Katanga, b. 1948
• Gabriel Raftopoulos Metropolitan of Leontopolis, b. 1957
• Nephon Tsavaris Metropolitan of Pelusium, b. 1959

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 12 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Nikephoros Konstantinou Metropolitan of Kinshasa consecrated 24 October 2010
2. Demetrios Kommatas Metropolitan of the Princes' Islands, b. 1952 consecrated 4 November 1990
3. Constantine Charisiades Metropolitan of Nicaea, 1929–2021 consecrated 16 January 1972
4. Maximos Georgiades Metropolitan of Laodicea, 1908–1979 consecrated 9 June 1946
5. Polycarp Demetriades Metropolitan of Prousa, 1892–1953 consecrated 25 December 1927
6. Alexander Nemolovsky Metropolitan of Brussels and Belgium, 1876–1960 consecrated 28 November 1909
7. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
8. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
9. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
10. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
11. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
12. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
13. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 1

• 15 December 2019Damaskinos Lionakes Bishop of Dorylaion, b. 1979

Sources

Also in: Wikidata