Agathonikos Fatouros

Life

Born

6 March 1937

Ordained deacon

1960

Ordained priest

1964

Consecrated bishop

24 November 1985

Made metropolitan

24 November 1985

Retired

2013

Sees

1. 24 November 1985 – 2013

   Metropolitan of Kitros and Katerini

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 2013 – present

   Former Metropolitan of Kitros and Katerini

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 24 November 1985 by:

• Serapheim Tikas Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1913–1998
• Dorotheos Stekas Metropolitan of Syros, Tinos, Andros, Kea and Milos, 1913–2001
• Sotirios Kitsos Metropolitan of Gytheion and Oitylos, 1920–1996
• Theophilos Kanavos Metropolitan of Gortyna and Megalopolis, 1921–2006
• Anthony Kompos Metropolitan of Sisanion and Siatista, 1920–2005
• Christodoulos Paraskevaides Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1939–2008
• Titos Papanakos Metropolitan of Paramythia, Filiates, Giromeri and Parga, b. 1931
• Kallinikos Karousos Metropolitan of Peiraeus, 1926–2020
• Sergios Sigalas Metropolitan of Grevena, 1934–2014
• Ambrose Lenes Former Metropolitan of Kalavryta and Aigialeia, b. 1938
• Meletios Kalamaras Metropolitan of Nikopolis and Preveza, 1933–2012
• Eustathios Speliotes Metropolitan of Monemvasia and Sparta, b. 1940
• Panteleimon Rizos Metropolitan of Thera, Amorgos and Nisoi, 1925–2007
• Maximos Xydas Metropolitan of Serrai and Nigrita, 1942–2003
• Alexander Papadopoulos Metropolitan of Mantineia and Kynouria, b. 1936
• Gregory III Papoutsopoulos Metropolitan of Kastoria, 1933–1996
• Panteleimon Sklavos Metropolitan of Vryoula, b. 1936
• Anastasios Yannoulatos Archbishop of Tirana, Durrës and All Albania, b. 1929

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 13 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Agathonikos Fatouros Former Metropolitan of Kitros and Katerini consecrated 24 November 1985
2. Anastasios Yannoulatos Archbishop of Tirana, Durrës and All Albania, b. 1929 consecrated 1972
3. Chrysostom Venetopoulos Metropolitan of Fokis, 1913–1986 consecrated 24 November 1957
4. Gabriel Kalokairinos Metropolitan of Thera, Amorgos and Nisoi, 1910–1983 consecrated 17 November 1957
5. Maximos Tsaouses Metropolitan of Sardis, 1914–1986 consecrated 16 June 1946
6. Polycarp Demetriades Metropolitan of Prousa, 1892–1953 consecrated 25 December 1927
7. Alexander Nemolovsky Metropolitan of Brussels and Belgium, 1876–1960 consecrated 28 November 1909
8. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
9. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
10. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
11. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
12. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
13. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
14. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 10

• 20 November 1988Iakovos Phrantzes Metropolitan of Mytilini, Eressos and Plomarion, b. 1942
• 15 October 1989Demetrios Bekiares Metropolitan of Goumenissa, Axiopolis and Polykastron, b. 1948
• 29 May 1994Panteleimon Kalpakides Metropolitan of Veroia, Naousa and Kampania, b. 1945
• 28 January 1995Alexios Vrionis Metropolitan of Nikaia, b. 1944
• 5 October 1996Serapheim Papakostas Metropolitan of Kastoria, cons. 1996
• 10 October 1998Ignatios Georgakopoulos Metropolitan of Demetrias and Almyros, b. 1956
• 16 December 2001Makarios Philotheou Metropolitan of Siderokastron, b. 1952
• 15 March 2007Chrysostom Savvatos Metropolitan of Messenia, b. 1961
• 28 June 2008George Mantzouranes Metropolitan of Thebes and Levadeia, b. 1952
• 24 October 2009Serapheim Kalogeropoulos Bishop of Rentina, 1945–2016

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr

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