Theodore Dridakes

Life

Born

1966

Monastic tonsure

7 August 1988

Ordained deacon

8 August 1988

Ordained priest

22 July 2000

Made archimandrite

25 March 2002

Consecrated bishop

18 December 2016

Made metropolitan

15 February 2024

Sees

1. 18 December 2016 – 15 February 2024

   Bishop of Babylon

   Patriarchate of Alexandria

2. 15 February 2024 – present

   Metropolitan of Brazzaville and Gabon

   Patriarchate of Alexandria

Consecration

Consecrated 18 December 2016 by:

• Theodore II Choreftakis Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, b. 1954
• Nicholas Antonioiu Metropolitan of Hermopolis, b. 1944
• Amphilochios Andronikakes Metropolitan of Kissamos and Selino, b. 1964
• Nikodemos Priangelos Metropolitan of Memphis, b. 1967
• Nephon Tsavaris Metropolitan of Pelusium, b. 1959
• Cyril Diamantakes Metropolitan of Ierapytna and Sitia, b. 1971
• Meletios Koumanis Metropolitan of Carthage, b. 1970

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 14 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Theodore Dridakes Metropolitan of Brazzaville and Gabon consecrated 18 December 2016
2. Cyril Diamantakes Metropolitan of Ierapytna and Sitia, b. 1971 consecrated 17 October 2016
3. Damaskinos Karpathakes Metropolitan of Didymoteixon, Orestias and Soufli, b. 1959 consecrated 27 January 1995
4. Iakovos Korozes Metropolitan of Kythira, 1927–2009 consecrated 2 March 1980
5. Gabriel Kalokairinos Metropolitan of Thera, Amorgos and Nisoi, 1910–1983 consecrated 17 November 1957
6. Maximos Tsaouses Metropolitan of Sardis, 1914–1986 consecrated 16 June 1946
7. Polycarp Demetriades Metropolitan of Prousa, 1892–1953 consecrated 25 December 1927
8. Alexander Nemolovsky Metropolitan of Brussels and Belgium, 1876–1960 consecrated 28 November 1909
9. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
10. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
11. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
12. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
13. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
14. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
15. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 4

• 5 December 2018Daniel Biazes Metropolitan of Accra, b. 1977
• 23 December 2018Photios Chatzeantoniou Metropolitan of Lilongwe, b. 1954
• 13 January 2019Prodromos Katsoules Bishop of Toliara and Southern Madagascar, b. 1982
• 6 December 2019Peter Parginos Metropolitan of Axium, b. 1964

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr