Meletios Karkangelis

Life

Born

19 December 1982

Ordained deacon

2 January 2011

Ordained priest

4 January 2011

Made archimandrite

5 December 2012

Consecrated bishop

9 March 2025

Sees

1. 9 March 2025 – present

   Bishop of Zela

   Vicar of Buenos Aires · Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 9 March 2025 by:

• Joseph Bishop of Argeș
• Nektarios Selalmatzides Archbishop of Anthidona, b. 1962
• Eireneos Tamaninis Bishop of Tropaion, b. 1966

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 12 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Meletios Karkangelis Bishop of Zela consecrated 9 March 2025
2. Nektarios Selalmatzides Archbishop of Anthidona, b. 1962 consecrated 24 March 2013
3. Constantine Charisiades Metropolitan of Nicaea, 1929–2021 consecrated 16 January 1972
4. Maximos Georgiades Metropolitan of Laodicea, 1908–1979 consecrated 9 June 1946
5. Polycarp Demetriades Metropolitan of Prousa, 1892–1953 consecrated 25 December 1927
6. Alexander Nemolovsky Metropolitan of Brussels and Belgium, 1876–1960 consecrated 28 November 1909
7. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
8. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
9. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
10. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
11. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
12. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
13. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr