Orthodox Hierarchs

Patriarchate of Alexandria

Photios Chatzeantoniou

Φώτιος

Metropolitan of Lilongwe · b. 1954

Born Chatzeantoniou (Χατζηαντωνίου)

Life

Born
23 July 1954
Ordained deacon
22 July 1980
Ordained priest
9 November 1980
Made archimandrite
9 November 1980
Consecrated bishop
23 December 2018
Made metropolitan
7 October 2025

Sees

  1. 23 December 2018 – 7 October 2025

    Bishop of Malawi

    Patriarchate of Alexandria

  2. 7 October 2025 – present

    Metropolitan of Lilongwe

    Patriarchate of Alexandria

Consecration

Consecrated 23 December 2018 by:

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. Photios Chatzeantoniou Metropolitan of Lilongwe consecrated 23 December 2018
  2. Silvester Kisitu Bishop of Jinja and Eastern Uganda, b. 1982 consecrated 16 December 2018
  3. Cyril Kogerakis Metropolitan of Rhodes, b. 1964 consecrated 25 April 2004
  4. Bartholomew I Archondonis Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, b. 1940 consecrated 25 December 1973
  5. Chrysostom Koronaios Metropolitan of Neocaesarea, 1894–1976 consecrated 7 May 1944
  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

Sources

Also in: Wikidata

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