Joachim Billes

Life

Born

24 March 1972

Ordained deacon

21 April 2002

Ordained priest

8 October 2017

Consecrated bishop

25 March 2021

Sees

1. 25 March 2021 – present

   Metropolitan of Prousa

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 25 March 2021 by:

• Bartholomew I Archondonis Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, b. 1940
• Emmanuel Adamakis Senior Metropolitan of Chalcedon, b. 1958
• Apostolos Danielides Senior Metropolitan of Derka, b. 1952
• Eireneos Ioannides Metropolitan of Myriofytos and Peristasi, b. 1951
• Chrysostom Kalaitzes Metropolitan of Myra, b. 1946
• Gennadios Limouris Metropolitan of Sassima, 1951–2022
• Andrew Nanankes Metropolitan of Arkalochorion, Kastelion and Viannos, b. 1957
• Amphilochios Stergiou Metropolitan of Adrianopolis, b. 1961
• Andrew Sophianopoulos Metropolitan of Saranta Ecclesies, b. 1975

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. Joachim Billes Metropolitan of Prousa consecrated 25 March 2021
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

• 25 July 2021Demetrios Ploumes Metropolitan of France, b. 1979
• 3 July 2022Paisios Kokkinakes Bishop of Xanthoupolis, b. 1981
• 25 December 2023Theodore Meimaris Metropolitan of Seleucia, b. 1979

Sources

Also in: Wikidata