Meliton Karas

Life

Born

14 March 1951

Ordained deacon

4 August 1974

Ordained priest

25 December 1987

Consecrated bishop

28 October 1990

Made metropolitan

28 October 1990

Sees

1. 28 October 1990 – present

   Metropolitan of Philadelphia

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 28 October 1990 by:

• Demetrios I Papadopoulos Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1914–1991
• Bartholomew I Archondonis Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, b. 1940
• Hieronymos Constantinidis Metropolitan of Rodopolis, 1912–2005
• Photios Savvaides Metropolitan of Heraclea, 1924–2007
• Maximos Repanelles Metropolitan of Stavroupolis, 1919–1991
• Symeon Amaryllios Senior Metropolitan of Nicomedia, 1920–2003
• Gabriel Premetidis Metropolitan of Koloneia, d. 2003
• Evangelos Galanes Metropolitan of Perga, 1928–2018
• Kallinikos Alexandrides Metropolitan of Lystra, 1926–2014
• Constantine Charisiades Metropolitan of Nicaea, 1929–2021
• Augustine Lambardakis Metropolitan of Germany, b. 1938
• Joachim Nerantzoules Senior Metropolitan of Nicomedia, 1942–2023
• Panteleimon Kontogiannis Former Metropolitan of Belgium, 1935–2023
• Nikodemos Anagnostou Metropolitan of Ierissos, Agion Oros and Ardamerion, 1931–2012
• Apostolos Voulgares Metropolitan of Miletus, b. 1948

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. Meliton Karas Metropolitan of Philadelphia consecrated 28 October 1990
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 12

• 26 July 1996Alexander Kalpakides Metropolitan of Stavropegion, 1938–2016
• 15 September 1996Dionysios Sakates Metropolitan of Synada, d. 2021
• 1 June 1997Gennadios Limouris Metropolitan of Sassima, 1951–2022
• 16 March 1998Symeon Kruzhkov Bishop of Abydos, 1929–1998
• 11 April 1998Paisios Loulourgas Metropolitan of Tyana, b. 1945
• 10 September 2000Theoleptos Phenerles Metropolitan of Iconium, 1957–2026
• 3 June 2001Tarasios Anton Metropolitan of Rodopolis, b. 1956
• 12 May 2002Ilia Katre Metropolitan of Philomelion, 1937–2022
• 13 March 2011Stephen Dinides Metropolitan of Kallioupolis and Madytos, b. 1968
• 27 July 2014Maximos Vyenopoulos Metropolitan of Silybria, b. 1968
• 3 July 2021Ambrose Koutsourides Bishop of Argyropolis, b. 1968
• 25 July 2021Demetrios Ploumes Metropolitan of France, b. 1979

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr

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