Ignatios Sotiriades

Life

Born

1961

Ordained deacon

1992

Ordained priest

1997

Elected bishop

9 October 2023

Consecrated bishop

3 November 2023

Sees

1. 3 November 2023 – present

   Bishop of Salona

   Church of Greece

Consecration

Consecrated 3 November 2023 by:

• Ignatios Georgakopoulos Metropolitan of Demetrias and Almyros, b. 1956
• Andrew Nanankes Metropolitan of Arkalochorion, Kastelion and Viannos, b. 1957
• Makarios Philotheou Metropolitan of Siderokastron, b. 1952
• Barnabas Tyres Metropolitan of Neapolis and Stavroupolis, b. 1958
• Justin Bardakas Metropolitan of Nea Krini and Kalamaria, b. 1969
• Bartholomew Antoniou-Triantaphyllides Metropolitan of Poliana and Kilkis, b. 1969
• George Chrysostomou Metropolitan of Kitros, Katerini and Platamon, b. 1964

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. Ignatios Sotiriades Bishop of Salona consecrated 3 November 2023
2. Makarios Philotheou Metropolitan of Siderokastron, b. 1952 consecrated 16 December 2001
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

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr