Christodoulos Economou

Life

Born

26 November 1978

Made archimandrite

3 March 2000

Monastic tonsure

23 June 2000

Ordained deacon

25 June 2000

Ordained priest

3 March 2002

Consecrated bishop

14 November 2021

Sees

1. 14 November 2021 – present

   Bishop of Magnesia

   Vicar of Australia · Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 14 November 2021 by:

• Makarios Griniezakes Archbishop of Australia, b. 1973
• Ezekiel Kefalas Bishop of Dervis, b. 1938
• Iakovos Tsigounis Bishop of Miletoupolis, b. 1966
• Emilianos Koutouzes Bishop of Meloa, b. 1971
• Elpidios Karales Bishop of Perth, b. 1971
• Silouan Foteineas Bishop of Adelaide, b. 1978
• Kyriakos Michael Bishop of Melbourne, b. 1959

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. Christodoulos Economou Bishop of Magnesia consecrated 14 November 2021
2. Silouan Foteineas Bishop of Adelaide, b. 1978 consecrated 19 January 2020
3. Myron Ktistakes Metropolitan of New Zealand, b. 1969 consecrated 11 July 2018
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

Bishops he consecrated 4

• 20 November 2021Eumenios Vasilopoulos Bishop of Chora, b. 1981
• 21 November 2021Bartholomew Anastasiades Bishop of Brisbane, b. 1980
• 27 September 2025Athenagoras Karakonstantakis Bishop of Canberra, b. 1984
• 28 September 2025Christopher Krikelis Bishop of Kerasounta, b. 1981

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr