Epifanii Demetriou

Life

Born

12 January 1963

Ordained priest

1988

Consecrated bishop

26 May 2019

Sees

1. 26 May 2019 – 11 May 2026

   Bishop of Olvia

   Vicar of Kyiv · Orthodox Church of Ukraine

2. 26 May 2026 – present

   Bishop of Hexamilion

   Patriarchate of Constantinople · released from the Orthodox Church of Ukraine on 2026-05-11 to join the Ecumenical Patriarchate

Consecration

Consecrated 26 May 2019 by:

• Epifaniy Dumenko Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, b. 1979
• Emmanuel Adamakis Senior Metropolitan of Chalcedon, b. 1958
• Amphilochios Stergiou Metropolitan of Adrianopolis, b. 1961

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. Epifanii Demetriou Bishop of Hexamilion consecrated 26 May 2019
2. Epifaniy Dumenko Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, b. 1979 consecrated 15 November 2009
3. Filaret Denysenko Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus'-Ukraine, b. 1929 consecrated 4 February 1962
4. Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978 consecrated 10 July 1960
5. Aleksii I Simanskii Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', 1877–1970 consecrated 28 April 1913
6. Ioannikii Dyachkov Bishop of Olonets and Petrozavodsk, 1858–1918 consecrated 30 September 1907
7. Gurii Okhotin Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russa, 1828–1912 consecrated 29 January 1890
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

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr

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