Athenagoras Chrysanes

Life

Born

1967

Consecrated bishop

18 November 2012

Made metropolitan

18 November 2012

Sees

1. 18 November 2012 – present

   Metropolitan of Kydonia

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 18 November 2012 by:

• Bartholomew I Archondonis Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, b. 1940
• Cyril Dragounes Metropolitan of Moschonision, b. 1942
• Apostolos Voulgares Metropolitan of Miletus, b. 1948
• Eireneos Ioannides Metropolitan of Myriofytos and Peristasi, b. 1951
• Apostolos Danielides Senior Metropolitan of Derka, b. 1952
• Emmanuel Adamakis Senior Metropolitan of Chalcedon, b. 1958
• Andrew Nanankes Metropolitan of Arkalochorion, Kastelion and Viannos, b. 1957
• George Mantzouranes Metropolitan of Thebes and Levadeia, b. 1952
• Stephen Dinides Metropolitan of Kallioupolis and Madytos, b. 1968

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. Athenagoras Chrysanes Metropolitan of Kydonia consecrated 18 November 2012
2. Bartholomew I Archondonis Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, b. 1940 consecrated 25 December 1973
3. Chrysostom Koronaios Metropolitan of Neocaesarea, 1894–1976 consecrated 7 May 1944
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 8

• 2 February 2014Nikephoros Psychloudis Bishop of Amorion, b. 1958
• 21 May 2014Cleopas Strongylis Metropolitan of Sweden and All Scandinavia, b. 1966
• 27 July 2014Maximos Vyenopoulos Metropolitan of Silybria, b. 1968
• 22 July 2018Maximos Pothos Metropolitan of Switzerland, b. 1966
• 21 July 2019Ambrose Chorozides Bishop of Evdokia, b. 1969
• 3 November 2019Benjamin Demopoulos Bishop of Tralles, b. 1971
• 19 July 2020Smaragdos Karagiannides Bishop of Daphnousia, cons. 2020
• 1 February 2026Bartholomew Iatrides Bishop of Elaia, b. 1979