Maximos Vyenopoulos

Life

Born

1968

Ordained deacon

26 December 1993

Ordained priest

26 July 2014

Consecrated bishop

27 July 2014

Made metropolitan

27 July 2014

Sees

1. 27 July 2014 – present

   Metropolitan of Silybria

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 27 July 2014 by:

• Bartholomew I Archondonis Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, b. 1940
• Amfilohije Radović Metropolitan of Montenegro and the Littoral, 1938–2020
• John Zizioulas Metropolitan of Pergamon, 1931–2023
• Meliton Karas Metropolitan of Philadelphia, b. 1951
• Ignatios Georgakopoulos Metropolitan of Demetrias and Almyros, b. 1956
• Paul Tsaousoglou Metropolitan of Glyfada, Elliniko, Voula, Vouliagmeni and Vari, 1943–2019
• Chrysostom Sklephas Metropolitan of Patrai, b. 1958
• Stephen Dinides Metropolitan of Kallioupolis and Madytos, b. 1968
• Athenagoras Chrysanes Metropolitan of Kydonia, b. 1967
• Makarios Maurogiannakis Metropolitan of Ptolemais, b. 1968
• Maksim Vasiljević Bishop of Western America, b. 1968

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. Maximos Vyenopoulos Metropolitan of Silybria consecrated 27 July 2014
2. Bartholomew I Archondonis Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, b. 1940 consecrated 25 December 1973
3. Chrysostom Koronaios Metropolitan of Neocaesarea, 1894–1976 consecrated 7 May 1944
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 4

• 8 February 2015Eireneos Avramides Bishop of Rhegion, b. 1956
• 22 July 2018Maximos Pothos Metropolitan of Switzerland, b. 1966
• 21 July 2019Ambrose Chorozides Bishop of Evdokia, b. 1969
• 8 December 2019Eireneos Verykakes Bishop of Evmenia, b. 1973