Demetrios Shiolashvili

Life

Born

16 February 1961

Ordained deacon

28 July 1985

Ordained priest

12 January 1986

Monastic tonsure

25 October 1996

Made archimandrite

26 October 1996

Consecrated bishop

8 November 1997

Made archbishop

14 September 2003

Made metropolitan

3 June 2007

Sees

1. 8 November 1997 – 14 September 2003

   Bishop of Batumi

   Patriarchate of Georgia

2. 14 September 2003 – 21 December 2006

   Archbishop of Batumi and Skhalta

   Patriarchate of Georgia

3. 21 December 2006 – 3 June 2007

   Archbishop of Batumi and Kobuleti

   Patriarchate of Georgia

4. 3 June 2007 – December 2007

   Metropolitan of Batumi and Kobuleti

   Patriarchate of Georgia

5. December 2007 – present

   Metropolitan of Batumi, Lazeti, North America and Canada

   Patriarchate of Georgia

Consecration

Consecrated 8 November 1997 by:

• Elias II Ghudushauri-Shiolashvili Catholicos and Patriarch of All Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta and Tbilisi, b. 1933

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 4 generations back to Ambrose Khelaya; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Demetrios Shiolashvili Metropolitan of Batumi, Lazeti, North America and Canada consecrated 8 November 1997
2. Elias II Ghudushauri-Shiolashvili Catholicos and Patriarch of All Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta and Tbilisi, b. 1933 consecrated 26 August 1963
3. Ephrem II Sidamonidze Catholicos and Patriarch of All Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta and Tbilisi, 1896–1972 consecrated 2 October 1927
4. Christopher III Tsitskishvili Catholicos and Patriarch of All Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta and Tbilisi, 1873–1932 consecrated 1921
5. Ambrose Khelaya Catholicos and Patriarch of All Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta and Tbilisi, 1861–1927 consecrated 15 October 1917

Sources

• wikidata.org

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