Stephen Kates

Life

Born

1 October 1969

Ordained deacon

6 January 1999

Ordained priest

9 December 2001

Consecrated bishop

27 December 2016

Made metropolitan

27 December 2016

Sees

1. 27 December 2016 – present

   Bishop of Stratonikeia

   Vicar of Leros · Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 27 December 2016 by:

• Paisios Aravantinos Metropolitan of Leros, Kalymnos and Astypalea, b. 1944
• Joseph Harkiolakis Metropolitan of Proikonnisos, b. 1955
• Cyril Kogerakis Metropolitan of Rhodes, b. 1964
• Amphilochios Stergiou Metropolitan of Adrianopolis, b. 1961

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. Stephen Kates Bishop of Stratonikeia consecrated 27 December 2016
2. Amphilochios Stergiou Metropolitan of Adrianopolis, b. 1961 consecrated 18 October 2014
3. Bartholomew I Archondonis Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, b. 1940 consecrated 25 December 1973
4. Chrysostom Koronaios Metropolitan of Neocaesarea, 1894–1976 consecrated 7 May 1944
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 3

• 30 September 2017Cyril Papanthimou Bishop of Olympos, b. 1980
• 30 November 2025Anthony Patros Bishop of Rodostolon, b. 1964
• 19 September 2026Kallinikos Mavroleon Bishop of Medeia, b. 1959

Sources

Also in: Wikidata