Anthimos Roussas

Life

Born

26 October 1934

Monastic tonsure

1964

Ordained deacon

1964

Ordained priest

1965

Consecrated bishop

14 July 1974

Made metropolitan

14 July 1974

Sees

1. 14 July 1974 – 2004

   Metropolitan of Alexandroupolis, Traianopolis and Samothrace

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 2004 – present

   Metropolitan of Thessaloniki

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 14 July 1974 by:

• Gabriel Kalokairinos Metropolitan of Thera, Amorgos and Nisoi, 1910–1983
• Sotirios Kitsos Metropolitan of Gytheion and Oitylos, 1920–1996
• Dionysios Kyratsos Metropolitan of Drama, 1923–2005
• Agathonikos Philippotis Metropolitan of Mesogaia and Lavreotika, 1918–2015

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. Anthimos Roussas Metropolitan of Thessaloniki consecrated 14 July 1974
2. Gabriel Kalokairinos Metropolitan of Thera, Amorgos and Nisoi, 1910–1983 consecrated 17 November 1957
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 15

• 28 January 1979Nicholas Drosos Metropolitan of Karpenision, 1929–2019
• 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
• 20 November 1988Iakovos Phrantzes Metropolitan of Mytilini, Eressos and Plomarion, b. 1942
• 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
• 16 December 2001Makarios Philotheou Metropolitan of Siderokastron, b. 1952
• 16 May 2010John Tassias Metropolitan of Lagadas, Lete and Rentina, 1958–2020
• 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
• 8 October 2017Stephen Tolios Metropolitan of Filippoi, Neapolis and Thasos, b. 1960

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr