Elpidophoros Lambriniadis

Life

Born

28 November 1967

Ordained deacon

1994

Ordained priest

20 March 2005

Consecrated bishop

20 March 2011

Made metropolitan

20 March 2011

Made archbishop

11 May 2019

Sees

1. 20 March 2011 – 11 May 2019

   Metropolitan of Prousa

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 11 May 2019 – present

   Archbishop of America

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 20 March 2011 by:

• Bartholomew I Archondonis Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, b. 1940
• Germanos Chabiaropoulos Metropolitan of Traianopolis, 1931–2022
• Eireneos Athanasiades Archbishop of Crete, b. 1933
• Chrysostom Kalaitzes Metropolitan of Myra, b. 1946
• Apostolos Danielides Senior Metropolitan of Derka, b. 1952
• Gennadios Limouris Metropolitan of Sassima, 1951–2022
• Theokletos Passales Metropolitan of Florina, Prespa and Eordaia, b. 1932
• Theoleptos Phenerles Metropolitan of Iconium, 1957–2026
• Paul Yazigi Metropolitan of Aleppo, Alexandretta (İskenderun) and Dependencies, b. 1959
• Hilarion Alfeyev Metropolitan of Budapest and Hungary, b. 1966
• Gregory Stergiou Metropolitan of Cameroon, b. 1961
• Isaiah Kykkotis Metropolitan of Tamasos and Orini, b. 1971
• Mitrofan Yurchuk Metropolitan of Luhansk and Alchevsk, 1962–2021

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. Elpidophoros Lambriniadis Archbishop of America consecrated 20 March 2011
2. Hilarion Alfeyev Metropolitan of Budapest and Hungary, b. 1966 consecrated 14 January 2002
3. Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003 consecrated 23 May 1963
4. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
5. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
6. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
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 19

• 9 October 2011Gabriel Papanikolaou Metropolitan of Nea Ionia and Philadelphia, b. 1976
• 19 August 2012Joseph Bosch Metropolitan of Buenos Aires, b. 1976
• 24 March 2013Nektarios Selalmatzides Archbishop of Anthidona, b. 1962
• 18 October 2014Amphilochios Stergiou Metropolitan of Adrianopolis, b. 1961
• 30 September 2017Cyril Papanthimou Bishop of Olympos, b. 1980
• 21 January 2018Cassian Notes Bishop of Arabissos, b. 1978
• 7 February 2018Chrysostom Pitsis Metropolitan of Symi, b. 1967
• 22 July 2018Maximos Pothos Metropolitan of Switzerland, b. 1966
• 22 December 2019Joachim Cotsonis Bishop of Amissos, b. 1954
• 14 November 2020Spyridon Kezios Bishop of Amastris, b. 1935
• 5 December 2020Timothy Bakakos Bishop of Hexamilion, b. 1952
• 19 December 2020John Constantinou Bishop of Phokaia, b. 1957
• 5 June 2021Athenagoras Zeliaskopoulos Metropolitan of New Jersey, b. 1970
• 3 July 2021Ambrose Koutsourides Bishop of Argyropolis, b. 1968
• 15 October 2022Konstantinos Morales Metropolitan of Denver, b. 1966
• 25 July 2023Theophanes Koja Bishop of Philomelion, b. 1966
• 13 April 2024Nektarios Papazafeiropoulos Bishop of Diokleia, b. 1985
• 20 April 2024Anthony Vrame Bishop of Synada, cons. 2024
• 28 March 2026Dionysios Anagnostopoulos Bishop of Zenoupolis, b. 1978

Sources

Also in: Wikidata