Joachim Karandinos

Life

Born

1974

Consecrated bishop

15 February 2026

Sees

1. 15 February 2026 – present

   Metropolitan of Lambi, Syvrita and Sfakia

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 15 February 2026 by:

• Eugene Antonopoulos Archbishop of Crete, b. 1968
• Makarios Doulouphakes Metropolitan of Gortyna and Arcadia, b. 1961
• Andrew Nanankes Metropolitan of Arkalochorion, Kastelion and Viannos, b. 1957
• Emmanuel Kiagias Metropolitan of Diospolis, b. 1956
• Amphilochios Andronikakes Metropolitan of Kissamos and Selino, b. 1964
• Cyril Diamantakes Metropolitan of Ierapytna and Sitia, b. 1971
• Prodromos Xenthakes Metropolitan of Rethymno and Avlopotamos, b. 1979
• Titos Tabakakis Metropolitan of Kydonia and Apokoronos, b. 1976
• Methodios Vernidakes Bishop of Knosos, b. 1969

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. Joachim Karandinos Metropolitan of Lambi, Syvrita and Sfakia consecrated 15 February 2026
2. Titos Tabakakis Metropolitan of Kydonia and Apokoronos, b. 1976 consecrated 7 February 2026
3. Makarios Maurogiannakis Metropolitan of Ptolemais, b. 1968 consecrated 10 March 2013
4. Maksim Dmitriev Bishop of Yelets and Lebedyansk, b. 1961 consecrated 20 January 2002
5. Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003 consecrated 23 May 1963
6. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
7. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
8. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
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

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