Demetrios Kommatas

Life

Born

26 October 1952

Ordained deacon

14 July 1974

Ordained priest

14 October 1990

Consecrated bishop

4 November 1990

Made metropolitan

4 November 1990

Sees

1. 4 November 1990 – 2018

   Metropolitan of Sebastea

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 2018 – present

   Metropolitan of the Princes' Islands

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 4 November 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
• Maximos Repanelles Metropolitan of Stavroupolis, 1919–1991
• 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
• Joachim Nerantzoules Senior Metropolitan of Nicomedia, 1942–2023
• John Zizioulas Metropolitan of Pergamon, 1931–2023

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. Demetrios Kommatas Metropolitan of the Princes' Islands consecrated 4 November 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

• 29 May 1994Panteleimon Kalpakides Metropolitan of Veroia, Naousa and Kampania, b. 1945
• 15 September 1996Dionysios Sakates Metropolitan of Synada, d. 2021
• 1 June 1997Gennadios Limouris Metropolitan of Sassima, 1951–2022
• 18 March 2000Theodoritos Polyzogopoulos Metropolitan of Laodicea, b. 1948
• 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
• 24 October 2010Nikephoros Konstantinou Metropolitan of Kinshasa, 1949–2021
• 13 March 2011Stephen Dinides Metropolitan of Kallioupolis and Madytos, b. 1968
• 7 February 2018Chrysostom Pitsis Metropolitan of Symi, b. 1967
• 15 December 2019Damaskinos Lionakes Bishop of Dorylaion, b. 1979
• 3 July 2022Paisios Kokkinakes Bishop of Xanthoupolis, b. 1981

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr

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