Nikodemos Totkas

Life

Born

1975

Monastic tonsure

13 November 1999

Ordained deacon

14 November 1999

Ordained priest

2004

Consecrated bishop

17 February 2022

Made metropolitan

15 February 2024

Sees

1. 17 February 2022 – 15 February 2024

   Bishop of Nilopolis

   Vicar of the Patriarch of Alexandria · Patriarchate of Alexandria

2. 15 February 2024 – present

   Metropolitan of Nigeria

   Patriarchate of Alexandria

Consecration

Consecrated 17 February 2022 by:

• Theodore II Choreftakis Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, b. 1954
• Ignatios Georgakopoulos Metropolitan of Demetrias and Almyros, b. 1956
• George Vladimirou Metropolitan of Conakry and Guinea, b. 1966
• Nicholas Antonioiu Metropolitan of Hermopolis, b. 1944
• Makarios Philotheou Metropolitan of Siderokastron, b. 1952
• Nikodemos Priangelos Metropolitan of Memphis, b. 1967
• Cyril Katerelos Metropolitan of Krinis, b. 1956
• Narkissos Gammoh Metropolitan of Pelusium, b. 1968
• Meletios Koumanis Metropolitan of Carthage, b. 1970
• Daniel Biazes Metropolitan of Accra, b. 1977
• Nikodemos Boulaxis Bishop of Nitria, b. 1960
• Germanos Galanes Metropolitan of Tamiathis, b. 1951
• Themistokles Adamopoulos Bishop of Nicopolis, b. 1945

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 13 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Nikodemos Totkas Metropolitan of Nigeria consecrated 17 February 2022
2. Makarios Philotheou Metropolitan of Siderokastron, b. 1952 consecrated 16 December 2001
3. Anthimos Roussas Metropolitan of Thessaloniki, b. 1934 consecrated 14 July 1974
4. Gabriel Kalokairinos Metropolitan of Thera, Amorgos and Nisoi, 1910–1983 consecrated 17 November 1957
5. Maximos Tsaouses Metropolitan of Sardis, 1914–1986 consecrated 16 June 1946
6. Polycarp Demetriades Metropolitan of Prousa, 1892–1953 consecrated 25 December 1927
7. Alexander Nemolovsky Metropolitan of Brussels and Belgium, 1876–1960 consecrated 28 November 1909
8. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
9. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
10. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
11. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
12. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
13. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
14. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 2

• 20 February 2022Chrysostomos Maidones Bishop of Bukoba, b. 1956
• 5 December 2025Nephon Daskalakis Bishop of Mahajanga and Northern Madagascar, b. 1970

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr