Stephen Charalambides

Life

Born

29 April 1940

Ordained deacon

1963

Ordained priest

1968

Consecrated bishop

25 July 1987

Made metropolitan

9 March 1999

Sees

1. 1987 – 9 March 1999

   Bishop of Nazianzos

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 9 March 1999 – present

   Metropolitan of Tallinn and All Estonia

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 25 July 1987 by:

• Constantine Charisiades Metropolitan of Nicaea, 1929–2021
• Jeremiah Kaligeorgis Metropolitan of Ancyra, b. 1935

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. Stephen Charalambides Metropolitan of Tallinn and All Estonia consecrated 25 July 1987
2. Constantine Charisiades Metropolitan of Nicaea, 1929–2021 consecrated 16 January 1972
3. Maximos Georgiades Metropolitan of Laodicea, 1908–1979 consecrated 9 June 1946
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 2

• 12 January 2025Damaskinos Olkinuora Bishop of Haapsalu, b. 1985
• 14 January 2026Andrew Noorhani Bishop of Tartu, b. 1961

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr

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