Prodromos Katsoules

Life

Born

16 February 1982

Monastic tonsure

November 2005

Ordained deacon

1 July 2011

Ordained priest

17 August 2011

Made archimandrite

1 May 2016

Consecrated bishop

13 January 2019

Sees

1. 13 January 2019 – present

   Bishop of Toliara and Southern Madagascar

   Patriarchate of Alexandria

Consecration

Consecrated 13 January 2019 by:

• Theodore II Choreftakis Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, b. 1954
• Eustathios Speliotes Metropolitan of Monemvasia and Sparta, b. 1940
• Theoktistos Kloukinas Metropolitan of Phokida, b. 1950
• Narkissos Gammoh Metropolitan of Pelusium, b. 1968
• Nikodemos Priangelos Metropolitan of Memphis, b. 1967
• Ignatios Sennis Metropolitan of Antananarivo, b. 1951
• Nicholas Antonioiu Metropolitan of Hermopolis, b. 1944
• Meletios Kamiloudis/Gregoriates Metropolitan of Katanga, b. 1948
• Theodore Dridakes Metropolitan of Brazzaville and Gabon, b. 1966

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. Prodromos Katsoules Bishop of Toliara and Southern Madagascar consecrated 13 January 2019
2. Eustathios Speliotes Metropolitan of Monemvasia and Sparta, b. 1940 consecrated 31 August 1980
3. Chrysostom Themelis Metropolitan of Messenia, 1918–2007 consecrated 21 November 1957
4. Iakovos Coucouzes Former Archbishop of North and South America, 1911–2005 consecrated 6 February 1955
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 8

• 30 January 2022Cosmas Thasites Bishop of Constantianis, b. 1975
• 13 February 2022Nektarios Kabuye Bishop of Gulu and Northern Uganda, b. 1982
• 23 October 2023Theophilos Mantzavrakos Bishop of Lakedaimon, b. 1976
• 3 March 2024Stephen Soulimiotis Bishop of Hippo, b. 1968
• 10 March 2024Polycarp Diamantopoulos Bishop of Bunia and Kisangani, b. 1973
• 1 November 2025Damaskinos Al Azrai Bishop of Mareotis, b. 1987
• 2 November 2025Joachim Skretas Bishop of Kigali and Rwanda, b. 1960
• 5 December 2025Nephon Daskalakis Bishop of Mahajanga and Northern Madagascar, b. 1970

Sources

Also in: Wikidata