Nikephoros Eustathiou

Life

Born

20 March 1967

Monastic tonsure

5 November 1995

Ordained deacon

13 November 1995

Ordained priest

6 December 1995

Made archimandrite

6 December 1995

Elected bishop

6 October 2022

Consecrated bishop

8 October 2022

Sees

1. 8 October 2022 – present

   Metropolitan of Gortyna and Megalopolis

   Church of Greece

Consecration

Consecrated 8 October 2022 by:

• Hieronymos II Liapis Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, b. 1938
• Eustathios Speliotes Metropolitan of Monemvasia and Sparta, b. 1940
• Dorotheos Polykandriotes Metropolitan of Syros, Tinos, Andros, Kea and Milos, b. 1963
• Chrysostom Triantaphyllou Metropolitan of Chalkis, Istiaia and Voreion Sporadon, b. 1957
• Dionysios Mantalos Metropolitan of Corinth, Sikion, Zemenon, Tarsus and Polyfengos, b. 1952
• Chrysostom Savvatos Metropolitan of Messenia, b. 1961
• Theoktistos Kloukinas Metropolitan of Phokida, b. 1950
• Symeon Voliotes Metropolitan of Phthiotis, b. 1977
• Philotheos Theochares Metropolitan of Thessaloniki, b. 1977

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 13 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Nikephoros Eustathiou Metropolitan of Gortyna and Megalopolis consecrated 8 October 2022
2. Eustathios Speliotes Metropolitan of Monemvasia and Sparta, b. 1940 consecrated 31 August 1980
3. Chrysostom Themelis Metropolitan of Messenia, 1918–2007 consecrated 21 November 1957
4. Iakovos Coucouzes Former Archbishop of North and South America, 1911–2005 consecrated 6 February 1955
5. Maximos Tsaouses Metropolitan of Sardis, 1914–1986 consecrated 16 June 1946
6. Polycarp Demetriades Metropolitan of Prousa, 1892–1953 consecrated 25 December 1927
7. Alexander Nemolovsky Metropolitan of Brussels and Belgium, 1876–1960 consecrated 28 November 1909
8. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
9. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
10. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
11. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
12. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
13. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
14. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 3

• 26 October 2023Nikodemos Eustathiou Bishop of Scopelos, b. 1969
• 12 October 2025John Karamouzis Bishop of Skiathos, b. 1973
• 11 October 2026Christodoulos Kotsifis Bishop of Neochorion, b. 1974

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr