Elias II Ghudushauri-Shiolashvili

Life

Born

1933

Ordained deacon

1957

Ordained priest

1959

Made hegumen

1961

Made archimandrite

1961

Consecrated bishop

26 August 1963

Made metropolitan

1969

Became patriarch

25 December 1977

Sees

1. 26 August 1963 – 1 September 1967

   Bishop of Batumi and Shemokmedi

   Patriarchate of Georgia

2. 1 September 1967 – 17 May 1969

   Bishop of Sukhumi and Abkhazia

   Patriarchate of Georgia

3. 17 May 1969 – 25 December 1977

   Metropolitan of Sukhumi and Abkhazia

   Patriarchate of Georgia

4. 25 December 1977 – present

   Catholicos and Patriarch of All Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta and Tbilisi

   Patriarchate of Georgia

Consecration

Consecrated 26 August 1963 by:

• Ephrem II Sidamonidze Catholicos and Patriarch of All Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta and Tbilisi, 1896–1972
• David VI Devdariani Catholicos and Patriarch of All Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta and Tbilisi, 1903–1977
• Leonid Zhvania Bishop of Sukhumi and Abkhazia, 1885–1964
• Naum Sabianitze Metropolitan of Kutaisi, 1889–1969
• Zinobi Majuga Metropolitan of Tetritskaro, 1896–1985

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 3 generations back to Ambrose Khelaya; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Elias II Ghudushauri-Shiolashvili Catholicos and Patriarch of All Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta and Tbilisi consecrated 26 August 1963
2. Ephrem II Sidamonidze Catholicos and Patriarch of All Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta and Tbilisi, 1896–1972 consecrated 2 October 1927
3. Christopher III Tsitskishvili Catholicos and Patriarch of All Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta and Tbilisi, 1873–1932 consecrated 1921
4. Ambrose Khelaya Catholicos and Patriarch of All Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta and Tbilisi, 1861–1927 consecrated 15 October 1917

Bishops he consecrated 13

• 26 March 1972Gaios Keratishvili Metropolitan of Urbnisi, 1945–2016
• 13 January 1974George Gongadze Metropolitan of Tsilkani, 1894–1982
• 24 May 1975Hilarion Samkharadze Archbishop of Bodbe, 1937–2016
• 19 February 1978Nicholas Makharadze Metropolitan of Tsilkani, 1932–2008
• 25 February 1978John Ananiashvili Metropolitan of Marabda, b. 1948
• 15 March 1981Ananias Djaparidze Metropolitan of Manglisi and Tetritskaro, b. 1949
• 11 October 1983Zosima Shioshvili Metropolitan of Tsilkani and Dusheti, b. 1951
• 8 November 1997Demetrios Shiolashvili Metropolitan of Batumi, Lazeti, North America and Canada, b. 1961
• 27 October 2013Demetrios Kapanadze Bishop of Khornabuji, 1975–2022
• 11 June 2014Lazaros Samadbegishvili Bishop of Borjomi and Bakuriani, 1955–2020
• 15 June 2014Dositheos Bogveradze Bishop of Belgium and the Netherlands, b. 1964
• 22 June 2014Sava Intskirveli Bishop of North America and Canada, b. 1981
• 1 June 2015Vakhtang Liparteliani Bishop of Nikortsminda, b. 1965

Sources

Also in: Wikidata