Eustathios Speliotes

Life

Born

16 July 1940

Monastic tonsure

12 August 1964

Ordained deacon

13 August 1964

Ordained priest

6 December 1966

Elected bishop

28 August 1980

Consecrated bishop

31 August 1980

Sees

1. 31 August 1980 – present

   Metropolitan of Monemvasia and Sparta

   Church of Greece

Consecration

Consecrated 31 August 1980 by:

• Serapheim Tikas Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1913–1998
• Barnabas Tzortzatos Metropolitan of Kitros and Katerini, 1918–1985
• Chrysostom Themelis Metropolitan of Messenia, 1918–2007
• Theokletos Avrantinis Metropolitan of Aitolia and Acarnania, 1920–2007
• Sotirios Kitsos Metropolitan of Gytheion and Oitylos, 1920–1996
• Theophilos Kanavos Metropolitan of Gortyna and Megalopolis, 1921–2006
• Panteleimon Bardakos Metropolitan of Samos and Ikaria, 1920–1995
• Kallinikos Karousos Metropolitan of Peiraeus, 1926–2020
• Meletios Kalamaras Metropolitan of Nikopolis and Preveza, 1933–2012

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. Eustathios Speliotes Metropolitan of Monemvasia and Sparta consecrated 31 August 1980
2. Chrysostom Themelis Metropolitan of Messenia, 1918–2007 consecrated 21 November 1957
3. Iakovos Coucouzes Former Archbishop of North and South America, 1911–2005 consecrated 6 February 1955
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 30

• 3 October 1981Germanos Paraskevopoulos Metropolitan of Eleia and Oleni, 1932–2023
• 4 October 1981Hieronymos II Liapis Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, b. 1938
• 21 November 1985Gregory III Papoutsopoulos Metropolitan of Kastoria, 1933–1996
• 24 November 1985Agathonikos Fatouros Former Metropolitan of Kitros and Katerini, b. 1937
• 5 October 1996Serapheim Papakostas Metropolitan of Kastoria, cons. 1996
• 10 October 1998Ignatios Georgakopoulos Metropolitan of Demetrias and Almyros, b. 1956
• 22 January 2000Daniel Pourtsoukles Metropolitan of Kaisariani, Vyron and Ymittos, b. 1952
• 23 January 2000Theokletos Passales Metropolitan of Florina, Prespa and Eordaia, b. 1932
• 14 January 2001Ephrem Stenakis Metropolitan of Ydra, Spetsai, Aigina, Poros, Troizena and Methana, b. 1948
• 16 December 2001Makarios Philotheou Metropolitan of Siderokastron, b. 1952
• 5 February 2005Ambrose Zografos Metropolitan of Korea, b. 1960
• 15 March 2007Chrysostom Savvatos Metropolitan of Messenia, b. 1961
• 28 June 2008George Mantzouranes Metropolitan of Thebes and Levadeia, b. 1952
• 30 June 2008Kallinikos Demenopoulos Metropolitan of Paronaxia, b. 1959
• 25 October 2009Theoktistos Kloukinas Metropolitan of Phokida, b. 1950
• 26 October 2009Kallinikos Korombokes Metropolitan of Arta, b. 1967
• 1 November 2009Athanasios Bachos Bishop of Oleni, b. 1954
• 10 March 2012Anthony Avramiotes Metropolitan of Glyfada, Elliniko, Voula, Vouliagmeni and Vari, b. 1957
• 7 October 2012Theokletos Athanasopoulos Metropolitan of Ierissos, Agion Oros and Ardamerion, b. 1955
• 20 October 2013Nektarios Antonopoulos Metropolitan of Argolis, b. 1952
• 28 June 2014Maximos Papagiannes Metropolitan of Ioannina, b. 1968
• 13 October 2014Clement Koutsomytes Metropolitan of Peristerion, 1954–2021
• 7 October 2017Theokletos Lambrinakos Metropolitan of Stagoi and Meteora, b. 1967
• 10 February 2018Chrysostom Papathanasiou Metropolitan of Mani, b. 1950
• 13 January 2019Prodromos Katsoules Bishop of Toliara and Southern Madagascar, b. 1982
• 23 March 2019Athanasios Yannousas Metropolitan of Sisanion and Siatista, b. 1971
• 13 October 2019Hieronymos Karmas Metropolitan of Kalavryta and Aigialeia, b. 1966
• 8 October 2022Nikephoros Eustathiou Metropolitan of Gortyna and Megalopolis, b. 1967
• 23 October 2023Theophilos Mantzavrakos Bishop of Lakedaimon, b. 1976
• 11 November 2023Apostolos Kavaliotis Bishop of Tanagra, b. 1965

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr

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