Andrew Sophianopoulos

Life

Born

18 August 1975

Ordained priest

October 2017

Consecrated bishop

21 March 2021

Made metropolitan

21 March 2021

Sees

1. 21 March 2021 – present

   Metropolitan of Saranta Ecclesies

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 21 March 2021 by:

• Bartholomew I Archondonis Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, b. 1940
• Emmanuel Adamakis Senior Metropolitan of Chalcedon, b. 1958
• George Vladimirou Metropolitan of Conakry and Guinea, b. 1966
• Demetrios Grollios Bishop of Thermai, b. 1939
• Ambrose Lauriotis-Panagiotidis Metropolitan of Karpathos and Kasos, b. 1939
• Joseph Harkiolakis Metropolitan of Proikonnisos, b. 1955
• Cleopas Strongylis Metropolitan of Sweden and All Scandinavia, b. 1966
• Makarios Griniezakes Archbishop of Australia, b. 1973
• Evstratiy Zorya Archbishop of Chernihiv and Nizhyn, b. 1977

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. Andrew Sophianopoulos Metropolitan of Saranta Ecclesies consecrated 21 March 2021
2. Bartholomew I Archondonis Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, b. 1940 consecrated 25 December 1973
3. Chrysostom Koronaios Metropolitan of Neocaesarea, 1894–1976 consecrated 7 May 1944
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

Bishops he consecrated 5

• 25 March 2021Joachim Billes Metropolitan of Prousa, b. 1972
• 3 July 2022Paisios Kokkinakes Bishop of Xanthoupolis, b. 1981
• 25 December 2023Theodore Meimaris Metropolitan of Seleucia, b. 1979
• 2 February 2024Iakovos Andriopoulos Metropolitan of Mexico, b. 1992
• 14 December 2025Gregory Fragakis Metropolitan of Ancyra, b. 1986

Sources

Also in: Wikidata