Epiphanios Karageorgos

Life

Born

1971

Ordained deacon

6 December 1998

Ordained priest

31 May 1999

Made archimandrite

25 November 2005

Elected bishop

9 October 2023

Consecrated bishop

29 October 2023

Made metropolitan

4 October 2024

Sees

1. 29 October 2023 – 4 October 2024

   Bishop of Talantion

   Church of Greece

2. 4 October 2024 – present

   Metropolitan of Mantineia and Kynouria

   Church of Greece

Consecration

Consecrated 29 October 2023 by:

• Hieronymos II Liapis Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, b. 1938
• Makarios Philotheou Metropolitan of Siderokastron, b. 1952
• Chrysostom Sklephas Metropolitan of Patrai, b. 1958
• Panteleimon Moutaphes Metropolitan of Maroneia and Komotini, b. 1970
• Theodosios Tsitsivos Metropolitan of Kinshasa, b. 1971

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. Epiphanios Karageorgos Metropolitan of Mantineia and Kynouria consecrated 29 October 2023
2. Makarios Philotheou Metropolitan of Siderokastron, b. 1952 consecrated 16 December 2001
3. Anthimos Roussas Metropolitan of Thessaloniki, b. 1934 consecrated 14 July 1974
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 3

• 15 October 2024Stephen Devrelis Bishop of Almopia, b. 1972
• 20 October 2025Theologos Alexandrakis Bishop of Talantion, b. 1974
• 10 October 2026Kallinikos Nikolaou Bishop of Asterion, b. 1973

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr