Nathaniel Symeonides

Life

Born

1978

Ordained deacon

2003

Ordained priest

2010

Consecrated bishop

17 March 2018

Made metropolitan

17 March 2018

Sees

1. 17 March 2018 – present

   Metropolitan of Chicago

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 17 March 2018 by:

• Demetrios Trakatellis Archbishop of America, b. 1928
• Methodios Tournas Metropolitan of Boston, b. 1946
• Alexios Panagiotopoulos Metropolitan of Atlanta, b. 1943
• Savvas Zembillas Metropolitan of Pittsburgh, b. 1957
• Gerasimos Michaleas Metropolitan of San Francisco, b. 1945
• Evangelos Kourounis Metropolitan of Sardis, b. 1961
• Nicholas Condrea Metropolitan of the Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese of America and Canada, b. 1967
• Peter Lukyanov Archbishop of Chicago and the Midwest, 1948–2024
• Michael Dahulich Archbishop of New York and New Jersey, b. 1950
• Irinej Dobrijević Bishop of Eastern America, b. 1955
• Maksim Vasiljević Bishop of Western America, b. 1968
• Anthony Paropoulos Bishop of Phasiane, b. 1953
• Sebastian Skordallos Metropolitan of Atlanta, b. 1955
• Apostolos Koufalakes Archbishop of Canada, cons. 2014
• Makarios Griniezakes Archbishop of Australia, b. 1973
• Hierotheos Zacharis Bishop of Evkarpia, cons. 2017

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. Nathaniel Symeonides Metropolitan of Chicago consecrated 17 March 2018
2. Nicholas Condrea Metropolitan of the Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese of America and Canada, b. 1967 consecrated 14 July 2002
3. Theodosius Lazor Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1933–2020 consecrated 6 May 1967
4. Silvester Haruns Archbishop of Montréal and Canada, 1914–2000 consecrated 27 April 1952
5. Vladimir Tikhonitskii Metropolitan of Białystok, 1873–1959 consecrated 3 June 1907
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 8

• 18 January 2020Elpidios Karales Bishop of Perth, b. 1971
• 19 January 2020Silouan Foteineas Bishop of Adelaide, b. 1978
• 5 December 2020Timothy Bakakos Bishop of Hexamilion, b. 1952
• 15 October 2022Konstantinos Morales Metropolitan of Denver, b. 1966
• 27 September 2025Athenagoras Karakonstantakis Bishop of Canberra, b. 1984
• 28 September 2025Christopher Krikelis Bishop of Kerasounta, b. 1981
• 28 March 2026Dionysios Anagnostopoulos Bishop of Zenoupolis, b. 1978
• 11 July 2026Isidore Katsos Bishop of Andidon, b. 1975