Athenagoras Salmas

Life

Born

1974

Ordained deacon

1996

Ordained priest

1999

Made archimandrite

2006

Consecrated bishop

26 July 2020

Sees

1. 26 July 2020 – present

   Bishop of Patara

   Vicar of Canada · Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 26 July 2020 by:

• Sotirios Athanassoulas Archbishop of Canada, b. 1936
• Mitrofan Kodić Bishop of Canada, b. 1951
• Andrew Peshko Bishop of Toronto, b. 1972
• Bartholomew Mostratos Bishop of Keramon, b. 1954

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 12 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Athenagoras Salmas Bishop of Patara consecrated 26 July 2020
2. Andrew Peshko Bishop of Toronto, b. 1972 consecrated 13 December 2005
3. Nicholas Condrea Metropolitan of the Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese of America and Canada, b. 1967 consecrated 14 July 2002
4. Theodosius Lazor Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1933–2020 consecrated 6 May 1967
5. Silvester Haruns Archbishop of Montréal and Canada, 1914–2000 consecrated 27 April 1952
6. Vladimir Tikhonitskii Metropolitan of Białystok, 1873–1959 consecrated 3 June 1907
7. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
8. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
9. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
10. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
11. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
12. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
13. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 1

• 30 July 2020Iakovos Antonopoulos Metropolitan of Ireland, b. 1977