John Pelushi

Life

Born

1 January 1956

Ordained deacon

27 February 1994

Ordained priest

4 December 1994

Made archimandrite

19 November 1996

Consecrated bishop

20 July 1998

Made archbishop

16 March 2025

Sees

1. 20 July 1998 – 16 March 2025

   Metropolitan of Korçë

   Church of Albania

2. 16 March 2025 – present

   Archbishop of Tirana, Durrës and All Albania

   Church of Albania

Consecration

Consecrated 20 July 1998 by:

• Anastasios Yannoulatos Archbishop of Tirana, Durrës and All Albania, b. 1929
• Ignatios Alexiou Metropolitan of Arta, b. 1945

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. John Pelushi Archbishop of Tirana, Durrës and All Albania consecrated 20 July 1998
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 3

• 23 July 1998Cosmas Qirjo Bishop of Apollonia, 1921–2000
• 16 November 2006Demetrios Dikbasanis Metropolitan of Gjirokastër, b. 1940
• 21 November 2006Andon Merdani Metropolitan of Elbasan, Shpat and Librazhd, b. 1969

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr

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