Silvester Kisitu

Life

Born

20 September 1982

Ordained deacon

8 September 2013

Ordained priest

8 September 2014

Made archimandrite

2015

Consecrated bishop

16 December 2018

Sees

1. 16 December 2018 – 12 January 2022

   Bishop of Gulu and Eastern Uganda

   Patriarchate of Alexandria

2. 12 January 2022 – present

   Bishop of Jinja and Eastern Uganda

   Patriarchate of Alexandria

Consecration

Consecrated 16 December 2018 by:

• Theodore II Choreftakis Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, b. 1954
• Jonah Lwanga Metropolitan of Kampala and All Uganda, 1945–2021
• Cyril Kogerakis Metropolitan of Rhodes, b. 1964
• Narkissos Gammoh Metropolitan of Pelusium, b. 1968
• Nikodemos Priangelos Metropolitan of Memphis, b. 1967
• Savvas Cheimonetos Metropolitan of Nubia, b. 1971
• Cyril Papanthimou Bishop of Olympos, b. 1980

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. Silvester Kisitu Bishop of Jinja and Eastern Uganda consecrated 16 December 2018
2. Cyril Kogerakis Metropolitan of Rhodes, b. 1964 consecrated 25 April 2004
3. Bartholomew I Archondonis Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, b. 1940 consecrated 25 December 1973
4. Chrysostom Koronaios Metropolitan of Neocaesarea, 1894–1976 consecrated 7 May 1944
5. Polycarp Demetriades Metropolitan of Prousa, 1892–1953 consecrated 25 December 1927
6. Alexander Nemolovsky Metropolitan of Brussels and Belgium, 1876–1960 consecrated 28 November 1909
7. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
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

Bishops he consecrated 2

• 23 December 2018Photios Chatzeantoniou Metropolitan of Lilongwe, b. 1954
• 13 February 2022Nektarios Kabuye Bishop of Gulu and Northern Uganda, b. 1982

Sources

Also in: Wikidata