Theokletos Athanasopoulos

Life

Born

13 November 1955

Monastic tonsure

6 December 1978

Ordained deacon

10 December 1978

Ordained priest

26 October 1980

Made archimandrite

26 October 1980

Elected bishop

5 October 2012

Consecrated bishop

7 October 2012

Sees

1. 7 October 2012 – present

   Metropolitan of Ierissos, Agion Oros and Ardamerion

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 7 October 2012 by:

• Hieronymos II Liapis Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, b. 1938
• Eustathios Speliotes Metropolitan of Monemvasia and Sparta, b. 1940
• Alexander Papadopoulos Metropolitan of Mantineia and Kynouria, b. 1936
• Nikodemos Korakes Metropolitan of Kassandreia, b. 1942
• Dorotheos Polykandriotes Metropolitan of Syros, Tinos, Andros, Kea and Milos, b. 1963
• Hierotheos Tsoliakos Metropolitan of Zichnai and Nevrokopion, b. 1945
• Paul Papalexiou Metropolitan of Servia and Kozani, b. 1942
• Chrysostom Sklephas Metropolitan of Patrai, b. 1958
• Jeremiah Phountas Metropolitan of Gortyna and Megalopolis, 1941–2021
• Dionysios Mantalos Metropolitan of Corinth, Sikion, Zemenon, Tarsus and Polyfengos, b. 1952
• Chrysostom Savvatos Metropolitan of Messenia, b. 1961
• Emmanuel Sigalas Metropolitan of Poliana and Kilkis, 1953–2021
• Athenagoras Dikaiakos Metropolitan of Ilion, Acharnes and Petroupolis, b. 1951
• Chrysostom Tsiringas Metropolitan of Nikopolis and Preveza, b. 1957

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 13 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Theokletos Athanasopoulos Metropolitan of Ierissos, Agion Oros and Ardamerion consecrated 7 October 2012
2. Eustathios Speliotes Metropolitan of Monemvasia and Sparta, b. 1940 consecrated 31 August 1980
3. Chrysostom Themelis Metropolitan of Messenia, 1918–2007 consecrated 21 November 1957
4. Iakovos Coucouzes Former Archbishop of North and South America, 1911–2005 consecrated 6 February 1955
5. Maximos Tsaouses Metropolitan of Sardis, 1914–1986 consecrated 16 June 1946
6. Polycarp Demetriades Metropolitan of Prousa, 1892–1953 consecrated 25 December 1927
7. Alexander Nemolovsky Metropolitan of Brussels and Belgium, 1876–1960 consecrated 28 November 1909
8. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
9. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
10. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
11. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
12. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
13. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
14. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 8

• 12 October 2014David Tzioumakas Metropolitan of Grevena, b. 1958
• 13 October 2014Chrysanthos Stellatos Bishop of Kernitsa, b. 1952
• 24 March 2019Theokletos Doulias Bishop of Tegea, b. 1971
• 13 October 2019Hieronymos Karmas Metropolitan of Kalavryta and Aigialeia, b. 1966
• 14 October 2019Eustratios Kalogeropoulos Metropolitan of Lemnos and Agios Eustratios, b. 1962
• 15 October 2019Philotheos Theochares Metropolitan of Thessaloniki, b. 1977
• 16 October 2021Bartholomew Antoniou-Triantaphyllides Metropolitan of Poliana and Kilkis, b. 1969
• 20 February 2022Chrysostomos Maidones Bishop of Bukoba, b. 1956

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr

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