Panteleimon Arathymos

Life

Born

2 April 1974

Ordained deacon

2000

Ordained priest

2001

Consecrated bishop

2 December 2012

Made metropolitan

24 October 2017

Sees

1. 2 December 2012 – 24 October 2017

   Bishop of Brazzaville and Gabon

   Patriarchate of Alexandria

2. 24 October 2017 – 12 January 2022

   Metropolitan of Brazzaville and Gabon

   Patriarchate of Alexandria

3. 12 January 2022 – 15 February 2024

   Metropolitan of Navkratis

   Patriarchate of Alexandria

4. 15 February 2024 – present

   Metropolitan of Ptolemais

   Patriarchate of Alexandria · suspended indefinitely (αργία) by Patriarch Theodore II on 2026-06-15

Consecration

Consecrated 2 December 2012 by:

• Theodore II Choreftakis Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, b. 1954
• Dorotheos Polykandriotes Metropolitan of Syros, Tinos, Andros, Kea and Milos, b. 1963
• Alexander Gianniris Metropolitan of Nigeria, b. 1960
• Savvas Cheimonetos Metropolitan of Nubia, b. 1971
• Gabriel Raftopoulos Metropolitan of Leontopolis, b. 1957
• Nikodemos Priangelos Metropolitan of Memphis, b. 1967
• Nephon Tsavaris Metropolitan of Pelusium, b. 1959

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. Panteleimon Arathymos Metropolitan of Ptolemais consecrated 2 December 2012
2. Savvas Cheimonetos Metropolitan of Nubia, b. 1971 consecrated 11 October 2009
3. Cyril Kogerakis Metropolitan of Rhodes, b. 1964 consecrated 25 April 2004
4. Bartholomew I Archondonis Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, b. 1940 consecrated 25 December 1973
5. Chrysostom Koronaios Metropolitan of Neocaesarea, 1894–1976 consecrated 7 May 1944
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 1

• 15 January 2023Panaretos Kimani Bishop of Nyeri and Mount Kenya, b. 1985

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr