Chrysostom Anagnostopoulos

Life

Born

1933

Monastic tonsure

1950

Ordained deacon

1960

Ordained priest

1965

Consecrated bishop

22 April 1978

Made metropolitan

10 January 2023

Sees

1. 22 April 1978 – 10 January 2023

   Bishop of Rodostolon

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 10 January 2023 – present

   Metropolitan of Rodostolon

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 22 April 1978 by:

• Meliton Hatzis Senior Metropolitan of Chalcedon, 1913–1989
• Chrysostom Konstantinides Metropolitan of Ephesus, 1921–2006
• Gabriel Premetidis Metropolitan of Koloneia, d. 2003
• Kallinikos Alexandrides Metropolitan of Lystra, 1926–2014
• Bartholomew I Archondonis Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, b. 1940

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. Chrysostom Anagnostopoulos Bishop of Rodostolon consecrated 22 April 1978
2. Meliton Hatzis Senior Metropolitan of Chalcedon, 1913–1989 consecrated 30 November 1950
3. Maximos Tsaouses Metropolitan of Sardis, 1914–1986 consecrated 16 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 1

• 29 May 1994Panteleimon Kalpakides Metropolitan of Veroia, Naousa and Kampania, b. 1945

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr