Nicholas Drosos

Life

Born

1929

Ordained deacon

16 November 1958

Ordained priest

1 January 1959

Consecrated bishop

28 January 1979

Made metropolitan

28 January 1979

Retired

3 February 2016

Died

15 January 2019

Sees

1. 28 January 1979 – 3 February 2016

   Metropolitan of Karpenision

   Church of Greece

2. 3 February 2016 – 15 January 2019

   Former Metropolitan of Karpenision

   Church of Greece

Consecration

Consecrated 28 January 1979 by:

• Dionysios Psarianos Metropolitan of Servia and Kozani, 1912–1997
• Apostolos Papakonstantinou Metropolitan of Poliana and Kilkis, 1924–2009
• Sebastian Aspiotes Metropolitan of Elassona, 1913–1999
• Paul Giannikopoulos Metropolitan of Veroia and Naousa, 1929–1993
• Anthimos Roussas Metropolitan of Thessaloniki, b. 1934
• Ambrose Stamenas Metropolitan of Paronaxia, 1922–2008
• Sergios Sigalas Metropolitan of Grevena, 1934–2014

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. Nicholas Drosos Metropolitan of Karpenision consecrated 28 January 1979
2. Dionysios Psarianos Metropolitan of Servia and Kozani, 1912–1997 consecrated 1952
3. Maximos Tsaouses Metropolitan of Sardis, 1914–1986 consecrated 16 June 1946
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