Chrysostom Tsiringas

Life

Born

1957

Monastic tonsure

20 November 1993

Ordained deacon

1 December 1993

Ordained priest

28 May 1995

Elected bishop

5 October 2012

Consecrated bishop

6 October 2012

Made metropolitan

6 October 2012

Sees

1. 6 October 2012 – present

   Metropolitan of Nikopolis and Preveza

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 6 October 2012 by:

• Hieronymos II Liapis Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, b. 1938
• Chrysostom Synetos Metropolitan of Dodoni, b. 1939
• Chrysostom Savvatos Metropolitan of Messenia, b. 1961
• Ignatios Alexiou Metropolitan of Arta, b. 1945
• Damaskinos Karpathakes Metropolitan of Didymoteixon, Orestias and Soufli, b. 1959
• Serapheim Papakostas Metropolitan of Kastoria, cons. 1996
• Serapheim Mentzelopoulos Metropolitan of Peiraeus, b. 1956
• Dorotheos Polykandriotes Metropolitan of Syros, Tinos, Andros, Kea and Milos, b. 1963
• Makarios Philotheou Metropolitan of Siderokastron, b. 1952
• Nektarios Dovas Metropolitan of Corfu, Paxoi and the Diapontian Islands, b. 1953
• Paul Tsaousoglou Metropolitan of Glyfada, Elliniko, Voula, Vouliagmeni and Vari, 1943–2019
• 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
• Dionysios Mantalos Metropolitan of Corinth, Sikion, Zemenon, Tarsus and Polyfengos, b. 1952
• Emmanuel Sigalas Metropolitan of Poliana and Kilkis, 1953–2021
• Athenagoras Dikaiakos Metropolitan of Ilion, Acharnes and Petroupolis, b. 1951
• Dionysios Siphnaios Metropolitan of Zakynthos and Strophades, b. 1954
• John Tassias Metropolitan of Lagadas, Lete and Rentina, 1958–2020

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. Chrysostom Tsiringas Metropolitan of Nikopolis and Preveza consecrated 6 October 2012
2. Serapheim Papakostas Metropolitan of Kastoria, cons. 1996 consecrated 5 October 1996
3. Anthimos Roussas Metropolitan of Thessaloniki, b. 1934 consecrated 14 July 1974
4. Gabriel Kalokairinos Metropolitan of Thera, Amorgos and Nisoi, 1910–1983 consecrated 17 November 1957
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 9

• 7 October 2012Theokletos Athanasopoulos Metropolitan of Ierissos, Agion Oros and Ardamerion, b. 1955
• 28 June 2014Maximos Papagiannes Metropolitan of Ioannina, b. 1968
• 11 October 2014Constantine Giakoumakes Metropolitan of Megara and Salamina, b. 1960
• 11 October 2015Chrysostom Nases Metropolitan of Trikki, Gardiki and Pyli, b. 1975
• 7 October 2017Theokletos Lambrinakos Metropolitan of Stagoi and Meteora, b. 1967
• 23 March 2019Athanasios Yannousas Metropolitan of Sisanion and Siatista, b. 1971
• 13 October 2019Hieronymos Karmas Metropolitan of Kalavryta and Aigialeia, b. 1966
• 10 October 2021Kallinikos Georgatos Metropolitan of Kastoria, b. 1966
• 15 October 2024Stephen Devrelis Bishop of Almopia, b. 1972

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr

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