Makarios Griniezakes

Life

Born

15 March 1973

Monastic tonsure

18 October 1993

Ordained deacon

18 October 1993

Ordained priest

25 June 1997

Made archimandrite

23 April 1998

Consecrated bishop

16 May 2015

Made archbishop

9 May 2019

Sees

1. 16 May 2015 – 9 May 2019

   Bishop of Christoupolis

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 9 May 2019 – present

   Archbishop of Australia

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 16 May 2015 by:

• Eireneos Athanasiades Archbishop of Crete, b. 1933

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 1 generation back to Eireneos Athanasiades; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Makarios Griniezakes Archbishop of Australia consecrated 16 May 2015
2. Eireneos Athanasiades Archbishop of Crete, b. 1933 consecrated 23 February 1975

Bishops he consecrated 12

• 17 October 2016Cyril Diamantakes Metropolitan of Ierapytna and Sitia, b. 1971
• 17 March 2018Nathaniel Symeonides Metropolitan of Chicago, b. 1978
• 20 October 2018Paisios Larentzakes Bishop of Apamea, b. 1978
• 18 January 2020Elpidios Karales Bishop of Perth, b. 1971
• 19 January 2020Silouan Foteineas Bishop of Adelaide, b. 1978
• 21 March 2021Andrew Sophianopoulos Metropolitan of Saranta Ecclesies, b. 1975
• 13 November 2021Kyriakos Michael Bishop of Melbourne, b. 1959
• 14 November 2021Christodoulos Economou Bishop of Magnesia, b. 1978
• 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