Chrysostom Venetopoulos

Life

Born

1913

Ordained deacon

1945

Ordained priest

1945

Consecrated bishop

24 November 1957

Made metropolitan

1 June 1967

Died

1 February 1986

Sees

1. 24 November 1957 – 1 June 1967

   Bishop of Kernitsa

   Vicar of the Archbishop of Athens · Church of Greece

2. 1 June 1967 – 1 February 1986

   Metropolitan of Fokis

   Church of Greece

Consecration

Consecrated 24 November 1957 by:

• Theokletos II Panagiotopoulos Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1889–1962
• Alexios Ingleses Metropolitan of Zakynthos, 1911–1966
• Dionysios Psarianos Metropolitan of Servia and Kozani, 1912–1997
• Gabriel Kalokairinos Metropolitan of Thera, Amorgos and Nisoi, 1910–1983
• Damaskinos Kotzias Metropolitan of Nafpaktos and Agios Vlasios, b. 1905
• Chrysostom Themelis Metropolitan of Messenia, 1918–2007

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. Chrysostom Venetopoulos Metropolitan of Fokis consecrated 24 November 1957
2. Gabriel Kalokairinos Metropolitan of Thera, Amorgos and Nisoi, 1910–1983 consecrated 17 November 1957
3. Maximos Tsaouses Metropolitan of Sardis, 1914–1986 consecrated 16 June 1946
4. Polycarp Demetriades Metropolitan of Prousa, 1892–1953 consecrated 25 December 1927
5. Alexander Nemolovsky Metropolitan of Brussels and Belgium, 1876–1960 consecrated 28 November 1909
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 2

• 1972Anastasios Yannoulatos Archbishop of Tirana, Durrës and All Albania, b. 1929
• 4 October 1981Hieronymos II Liapis Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, b. 1938