Maximos Pothos

Life

Born

19 September 1966

Ordained deacon

1990

Ordained priest

1993

Consecrated bishop

22 July 2018

Made metropolitan

22 July 2018

Sees

1. 22 July 2018 – present

   Metropolitan of Switzerland

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 22 July 2018 by:

• Bartholomew I Archondonis Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, b. 1940
• Emmanuel Adamakis Senior Metropolitan of Chalcedon, b. 1958
• Athenagoras Peckstadt Metropolitan of Belgium, b. 1962
• Kallinikos Korombokes Metropolitan of Arta, b. 1967
• Stephen Dinides Metropolitan of Kallioupolis and Madytos, b. 1968
• Elpidophoros Lambriniadis Archbishop of America, b. 1967
• Athenagoras Chrysanes Metropolitan of Kydonia, b. 1967
• Maximos Vyenopoulos Metropolitan of Silybria, b. 1968
• Bartholomew Samaras Metropolitan of Smyrna, b. 1972

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. Maximos Pothos Metropolitan of Switzerland consecrated 22 July 2018
2. Bartholomew I Archondonis Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, b. 1940 consecrated 25 December 1973
3. Chrysostom Koronaios Metropolitan of Neocaesarea, 1894–1976 consecrated 7 May 1944
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 3

• 10 November 2018Maximos Paphiles Bishop of Melitinis, b. 1978
• 4 December 2022George Antonopoulos Bishop of Krateia, b. 1966
• 6 December 2022Dionysios Papavasileiou Bishop of Kotyaios, b. 1972

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr