Gerontios I Marioles

Life

Born

22 December 1921

Ordained deacon

11 June 1942

Ordained priest

21 November 1943

Made archimandrite

14 September 1945

Consecrated bishop

6 June 1962

Made metropolitan

29 September 1972

Died

21 December 2008

Sees

1. 6 June 1962 – 29 September 1972

   Bishop of Salaminos

   Church of the True Orthodox Christians of Greece

2. 29 September 1972 – 21 December 2008

   Metropolitan of Peiraeus and Salamina

   Church of the True Orthodox Christians of Greece

Consecration

Consecrated 6 June 1962 by:

• Parthenios Bishop of Cyclades
• Auxentios Pastras Bishop of Gardiki, 1912–1994

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. Gerontios I Marioles Metropolitan of Peiraeus and Salamina consecrated 6 June 1962
2. Auxentios Pastras Bishop of Gardiki, 1912–1994 consecrated 1962
3. Leontii Filippovich Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina and Paraguay, 1904–1971 consecrated 7 November 1941
4. Aleksii Gromadskii Metropolitan of Volyn, 1882–1943 consecrated 3 September 1922
5. George Yaroshevskii Metropolitan of Warsaw and Chełm, 1872–1923 consecrated 1 July 1906
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 1

• 18 June 1978Gabriel Pinto da Rocha Metropolitan of Lisbon and Portugal, 1938–1997