Chariton Musungai

Life

Born

1974

Ordained deacon

20 April 2003

Ordained priest

2005

Consecrated bishop

2 February 2022

Sees

1. 2 February 2022 – present

   Bishop of Kananga

   Patriarchate of Alexandria

Consecration

Consecrated 2 February 2022 by:

• Theodore II Choreftakis Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, b. 1954
• George Vladimirou Metropolitan of Conakry and Guinea, b. 1966
• Nikodemos Priangelos Metropolitan of Memphis, b. 1967
• Meletios Kamiloudis/Gregoriates Metropolitan of Katanga, b. 1948
• Theodosios Tsitsivos Metropolitan of Kinshasa, b. 1971
• Cosmas Thasites Bishop of Constantianis, b. 1975

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 14 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Chariton Musungai Bishop of Kananga consecrated 2 February 2022
2. Nikodemos Priangelos Metropolitan of Memphis, b. 1967 consecrated 12 November 2006
3. Damaskinos Karpathakes Metropolitan of Didymoteixon, Orestias and Soufli, b. 1959 consecrated 27 January 1995
4. Iakovos Korozes Metropolitan of Kythira, 1927–2009 consecrated 2 March 1980
5. Gabriel Kalokairinos Metropolitan of Thera, Amorgos and Nisoi, 1910–1983 consecrated 17 November 1957
6. Maximos Tsaouses Metropolitan of Sardis, 1914–1986 consecrated 16 June 1946
7. Polycarp Demetriades Metropolitan of Prousa, 1892–1953 consecrated 25 December 1927
8. Alexander Nemolovsky Metropolitan of Brussels and Belgium, 1876–1960 consecrated 28 November 1909
9. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
10. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
11. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
12. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
13. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
14. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
15. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 2

• 30 March 2024Timothy Duba Musungai Bishop of Goma, b. 1972
• 31 March 2024Athanasios Kayebe Bishop of Benin and Togo, b. 1982

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr