Nikodemos Eustathiou

Life

Born

1969

Ordained deacon

1992

Ordained priest

1996

Elected bishop

9 October 2023

Consecrated bishop

26 October 2023

Sees

1. 26 October 2023 – present

   Bishop of Scopelos

   Vicar of Chalkis · Church of Greece

Consecration

Consecrated 26 October 2023 by:

• Hieronymos II Liapis Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, b. 1938
• Dorotheos Polykandriotes Metropolitan of Syros, Tinos, Andros, Kea and Milos, b. 1963
• Dionysios Mantalos Metropolitan of Corinth, Sikion, Zemenon, Tarsus and Polyfengos, b. 1952
• Chrysostom Savvatos Metropolitan of Messenia, b. 1961
• Nikephoros Eustathiou Metropolitan of Gortyna and Megalopolis, b. 1967
• Chrysostom Triantaphyllou Metropolitan of Chalkis, Istiaia and Voreion Sporadon, b. 1957

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 Eustathiou Bishop of Scopelos consecrated 26 October 2023
2. Hieronymos II Liapis Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, b. 1938 consecrated 4 October 1981
3. Chrysostom Themelis Metropolitan of Messenia, 1918–2007 consecrated 21 November 1957
4. Iakovos Coucouzes Former Archbishop of North and South America, 1911–2005 consecrated 6 February 1955
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

• 12 October 2025John Karamouzis Bishop of Skiathos, b. 1973
• 11 October 2026Christodoulos Kotsifis Bishop of Neochorion, b. 1974

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr