Damaskinos Al Azrai

Life

Born

28 August 1987

Ordained deacon

2008

Ordained priest

2011

Made archimandrite

2011

Consecrated bishop

1 November 2025

Sees

1. 1 November 2025 – present

   Bishop of Mareotis

   Patriarchate of Alexandria

Consecration

Consecrated 1 November 2025 by:

• Theodore II Choreftakis Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, b. 1954
• Theophylaktos Tzoumerkas Metropolitan of Caesarea, b. 1945
• Damaskinos Karpathakes Metropolitan of Didymoteixon, Orestias and Soufli, b. 1959
• Benedict Tsekouras Metropolitan of Diocaesarea, b. 1957
• Nicholas Antonioiu Metropolitan of Hermopolis, b. 1944
• Chrysostom Nases Metropolitan of Trikki, Gardiki and Pyli, b. 1975
• Daniel Biazes Metropolitan of Accra, b. 1977
• Germanos Galanes Metropolitan of Tamiathis, b. 1951
• Nikodemos Boulaxis Bishop of Nitria, b. 1960
• Prodromos Katsoules Bishop of Toliara and Southern Madagascar, b. 1982

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. Damaskinos Al Azrai Bishop of Mareotis consecrated 1 November 2025
2. Chrysostom Nases Metropolitan of Trikki, Gardiki and Pyli, b. 1975 consecrated 11 October 2015
3. Anthimos Roussas Metropolitan of Thessaloniki, b. 1934 consecrated 14 July 1974
4. Gabriel Kalokairinos Metropolitan of Thera, Amorgos and Nisoi, 1910–1983 consecrated 17 November 1957
5. Maximos Tsaouses Metropolitan of Sardis, 1914–1986 consecrated 16 June 1946
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 3

• 2 November 2025Joachim Skretas Bishop of Kigali and Rwanda, b. 1960
• 25 November 2025Philip Mugandizi Bishop of Kisumu and All Western Kenya, b. 1968
• 5 December 2025Nephon Daskalakis Bishop of Mahajanga and Northern Madagascar, b. 1970

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr