John Tassias

Life

Born

1958

Ordained deacon

1982

Ordained priest

1983

Consecrated bishop

16 May 2010

Died

15 November 2020

Sees

1. 16 May 2010 – 15 November 2020

   Metropolitan of Lagadas, Lete and Rentina

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 16 May 2010 by:

• Hieronymos II Liapis Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, b. 1938
• Anthimos Roussas Metropolitan of Thessaloniki, b. 1934
• Nikodemos Anagnostou Metropolitan of Ierissos, Agion Oros and Ardamerion, 1931–2012
• Ignatios Alexiou Metropolitan of Arta, b. 1945
• Nicholas Protopapas Metropolitan of Phthiotis, 1948–2019
• Andrew Nanankes Metropolitan of Arkalochorion, Kastelion and Viannos, b. 1957
• Theologos Apostolides Metropolitan of Serrai and Nigrita, b. 1967
• Dorotheos Polykandriotes Metropolitan of Syros, Tinos, Andros, Kea and Milos, b. 1963
• Ignatios Lappas Metropolitan of Larisa and Tyrnavos, 1946–2018
• Makarios Philotheou Metropolitan of Siderokastron, b. 1952
• Barnabas Tyres Metropolitan of Neapolis and Stavroupolis, b. 1958
• Paul Apostolides Metropolitan of Drama, 1963–2022
• Nathaniel Kalaidzhiev Metropolitan of Nevrokop, 1952–2013
• Kyriakos Georgopetres Metropolitan of Nazareth, b. 1945
• Theokletos Koumarianos Metropolitan of Vresthena, b. 1953
• Christodoulos Moustakas Metropolitan of Avlona, b. 1951
• Juraj Stránský Archbishop of Michalovce and Košice, b. 1979
• Serapheim Kalogeropoulos Bishop of Rentina, 1945–2016

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. John Tassias Metropolitan of Lagadas, Lete and Rentina consecrated 16 May 2010
2. Anthimos Roussas Metropolitan of Thessaloniki, b. 1934 consecrated 14 July 1974
3. Gabriel Kalokairinos Metropolitan of Thera, Amorgos and Nisoi, 1910–1983 consecrated 17 November 1957
4. Maximos Tsaouses Metropolitan of Sardis, 1914–1986 consecrated 16 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

Bishops he consecrated 13

• 6 October 2012Chrysostom Tsiringas Metropolitan of Nikopolis and Preveza, b. 1957
• 24 February 2013Panteleimon Moutaphes Metropolitan of Maroneia and Komotini, b. 1970
• 2 February 2014Nikephoros Psychloudis Bishop of Amorion, b. 1958
• 12 October 2014David Tzioumakas Metropolitan of Grevena, b. 1958
• 10 October 2015Demetrios Argyros Metropolitan of Kefalonia, b. 1958
• 11 October 2015Chrysostom Nases Metropolitan of Trikki, Gardiki and Pyli, b. 1975
• 7 October 2017Theokletos Lambrinakos Metropolitan of Stagoi and Meteora, b. 1967
• 8 October 2017Stephen Tolios Metropolitan of Filippoi, Neapolis and Thasos, b. 1960
• 10 February 2018Chrysostom Papathanasiou Metropolitan of Mani, b. 1950
• 11 February 2018Symeon Voliotes Metropolitan of Phthiotis, b. 1977
• 12 February 2018Constantios Panagiotakopoulos Bishop of Androusa, b. 1960
• 7 October 2018Hieronymos Nikopoulos Metropolitan of Larisa and Tyrnavos, b. 1971
• 23 March 2019Athanasios Yannousas Metropolitan of Sisanion and Siatista, b. 1971

Sources

Also in: Wikidata