Christopher Atallah

Life

Born

1970

Monastic tonsure

1984

Ordained deacon

1988

Ordained priest

6 January 1991

Consecrated bishop

19 May 2018

Made archbishop

19 May 2018

Sees

1. 19 May 2018 – present

   Archbishop of Kyriakoupolis

   Patriarchate of Jerusalem

Consecration

Consecrated 19 May 2018 by:

• Theophilos III Giannopoulos Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem and All Palestine, b. 1952
• Kyriakos Georgopetres Metropolitan of Nazareth, b. 1945
• Timothy Margarites Metropolitan of Bostra, b. 1951
• Benedict Tsekouras Metropolitan of Diocaesarea, b. 1957
• Damaskinos Gaganiaras Archbishop of Joppa, b. 1952
• Methodios Liveris Archbishop of Thabor, b. 1935
• Demetrios Vasileiades Archbishop of Lydda, b. 1958
• Makarios Maurogiannakis Metropolitan of Ptolemais, b. 1968
• Isidore Phakitsas Archbishop of Hierapolis, b. 1973

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. Christopher Atallah Archbishop of Kyriakoupolis consecrated 19 May 2018
2. Makarios Maurogiannakis Metropolitan of Ptolemais, b. 1968 consecrated 10 March 2013
3. Maksim Dmitriev Bishop of Yelets and Lebedyansk, b. 1961 consecrated 20 January 2002
4. Pitirim Nechayev Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev, 1926–2003 consecrated 23 May 1963
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

Bishops he consecrated 1

• 20 May 2018Aristoboulos Kyriatzes Archbishop of Qatar, b. 1970