Athanasios Papas

Life

Born

22 March 1936

Ordained deacon

26 April 1959

Ordained priest

17 September 1972

Consecrated bishop

24 September 1972

Made metropolitan

November 8/9, 1976

Retired

16 February 2021

Sees

1. 24 September 1972 – November 8/9, 1976

   Bishop of Helenoupolis

   Vicar of Chalcedon · Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. November 8/9, 1976 – 2 October 1990

   Metropolitan of Helenoupolis

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

3. 2 October 1990 – 21 March 2008

   Metropolitan of Heliopolis and Theira

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

4. 21 March 2008 – 16 February 2021

   Senior Metropolitan of Chalcedon

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

5. 16 February 2021 – present

   Former Senior Metropolitan of Chalcedon

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 24 September 1972 by:

• Meliton Hatzis Senior Metropolitan of Chalcedon, 1913–1989
• Hieronymos Constantinidis Metropolitan of Rodopolis, 1912–2005
• Photios Savvaides Metropolitan of Heraclea, 1924–2007

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. Athanasios Papas Senior Metropolitan of Chalcedon consecrated 24 September 1972
2. Meliton Hatzis Senior Metropolitan of Chalcedon, 1913–1989 consecrated 30 November 1950
3. Maximos Tsaouses Metropolitan of Sardis, 1914–1986 consecrated 16 June 1946
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 5

• 1985Vincent Malamatenios Bishop of Apamea, 1954–2022
• 28 July 1996Christodoulos Moustakas Metropolitan of Avlona, b. 1951
• 3 June 2001Tarasios Anton Metropolitan of Rodopolis, b. 1956
• 2 February 2014Nikephoros Psychloudis Bishop of Amorion, b. 1958
• 21 January 2018Cassian Notes Bishop of Arabissos, b. 1978