Dorotheos Papares

Life

Born

1957

Ordained deacon

1990

Ordained priest

1991

Elected bishop

7 October 2022

Consecrated bishop

16 October 2022

Sees

1. 16 October 2022 – present

   Metropolitan of Drama

   Church of Greece

Consecration

Consecrated 16 October 2022 by:

• Hieronymos II Liapis Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, b. 1938
• Demetrios Bekiares Metropolitan of Goumenissa, Axiopolis and Polykastron, b. 1948
• Panteleimon Kalaphates Metropolitan of Xanthi and Peritheorion, b. 1943
• Serapheim Mentzelopoulos Metropolitan of Peiraeus, b. 1956
• Theologos Apostolides Metropolitan of Serrai and Nigrita, b. 1967
• Dionysios Mantalos Metropolitan of Corinth, Sikion, Zemenon, Tarsus and Polyfengos, b. 1952
• Panteleimon Moutaphes Metropolitan of Maroneia and Komotini, b. 1970
• Stephen Tolios Metropolitan of Filippoi, Neapolis and Thasos, b. 1960
• Philotheos Theochares Metropolitan of Thessaloniki, b. 1977

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. Dorotheos Papares Metropolitan of Drama consecrated 16 October 2022
2. Stephen Tolios Metropolitan of Filippoi, Neapolis and Thasos, b. 1960 consecrated 8 October 2017
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