Gennadios Limouris

Life

Born

27 July 1951

Ordained deacon

27 September 1976

Ordained priest

18 January 1981

Consecrated bishop

1 June 1997

Died

1 June 2022

Sees

1. 1 June 1997 – 1 June 2022

   Metropolitan of Sassima

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 1 June 1997 by:

• Joachim Nerantzoules Senior Metropolitan of Nicomedia, 1942–2023
• Kallinikos Alexandrides Metropolitan of Lystra, 1926–2014
• Germanos Chabiaropoulos Metropolitan of Traianopolis, 1931–2022
• Iakovos Sophroniades Metropolitan of the Princes' Islands, 1947–2018
• Meliton Karas Metropolitan of Philadelphia, b. 1951
• Demetrios Kommatas Metropolitan of the Princes' Islands, b. 1952
• Apostolos Danielides Senior Metropolitan of Derka, b. 1952

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. Gennadios Limouris Metropolitan of Sassima consecrated 1 June 1997
2. Kallinikos Alexandrides Metropolitan of Lystra, 1926–2014 consecrated 6 December 1970
3. Chrysostom Koronaios Metropolitan of Neocaesarea, 1894–1976 consecrated 7 May 1944
4. Polycarp Demetriades Metropolitan of Prousa, 1892–1953 consecrated 25 December 1927
5. Alexander Nemolovsky Metropolitan of Brussels and Belgium, 1876–1960 consecrated 28 November 1909
6. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
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 4

• 29 January 2005Hilarion Rudnyk Metropolitan of Winnipeg, b. 1972
• 20 January 2008Nektarios Tsilis Metropolitan of Hong Kong, b. 1969
• 20 March 2011Elpidophoros Lambriniadis Archbishop of America, b. 1967
• 25 March 2021Joachim Billes Metropolitan of Prousa, b. 1972

Sources

Also in: Wikidata