Savvas Cheimonetos

Life

Born

1971

Ordained deacon

1991

Ordained priest

1993

Consecrated bishop

11 October 2009

Made metropolitan

21 November 2012

Sees

1. 11 October 2009 – 21 November 2012

   Bishop of Burundi and Rwanda

   Patriarchate of Alexandria

2. 21 November 2012 – 2015

   Metropolitan of Accra

   Patriarchate of Alexandria

3. 2015 – present

   Metropolitan of Nubia

   Patriarchate of Alexandria

Consecration

Consecrated 11 October 2009 by:

• Theodore II Choreftakis Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, b. 1954
• Cyril Kogerakis Metropolitan of Rhodes, b. 1964
• Nicholas Antonioiu Metropolitan of Hermopolis, b. 1944
• Demetrios Zacharengas Metropolitan of Irinoupolis, b. 1965
• Gabriel Raftopoulos Metropolitan of Leontopolis, b. 1957
• Spyridon Meliotes Former Bishop of Kanopos, 1941–2013
• Gennadios Stantzios Metropolitan of Libya, b. 1969

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. Savvas Cheimonetos Metropolitan of Nubia consecrated 11 October 2009
2. Cyril Kogerakis Metropolitan of Rhodes, b. 1964 consecrated 25 April 2004
3. Bartholomew I Archondonis Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, b. 1940 consecrated 25 December 1973
4. Chrysostom Koronaios Metropolitan of Neocaesarea, 1894–1976 consecrated 7 May 1944
5. Polycarp Demetriades Metropolitan of Prousa, 1892–1953 consecrated 25 December 1927
6. Alexander Nemolovsky Metropolitan of Brussels and Belgium, 1876–1960 consecrated 28 November 1909
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 5

• 2 December 2012Panteleimon Arathymos Metropolitan of Ptolemais, b. 1974
• 6 December 2012Innocent Byakatonda Bishop of Burundi and Rwanda, b. 1964
• 30 September 2017Cyril Papanthimou Bishop of Olympos, b. 1980
• 16 December 2018Silvester Kisitu Bishop of Jinja and Eastern Uganda, b. 1982
• 5 December 2019Mark Theodoses Bishop of Gaborone and Botswana, b. 1960