Alexios Michalopoulos

Life

Born

10 October 1932

Monastic tonsure

1954

Ordained deacon

7 March 1954

Ordained priest

3 September 1961

Consecrated bishop

22 August 1976

Made metropolitan

1 October 1981

Retired

25 September 2015

Died

7 December 2020

Sees

1. 22 August 1976 – 1 October 1981

   Bishop of Diavleia

   Vicar of Athens · Church of Greece

2. 1 October 1981 – 25 September 2015

   Metropolitan of Trikki and Stagoi

   Church of Greece

3. 25 September 2015 – 7 December 2020

   Former Metropolitan of Trikki and Stagoi

   Church of Greece

Consecration

Consecrated 22 August 1976 by:

• Serapheim Tikas Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1913–1998
• Panteleimon Karanikolas Metropolitan of Corinth, 1919–2006
• Dionysios Kyratsos Metropolitan of Drama, 1923–2005
• Chrysostom Voultsos Metropolitan of Nea Smyrni, 1927–1986
• Prokopios Tsakoumakas Metropolitan of Filippoi, Neapolis and Thasos, 1939–2017
• Prokopios Georgantopoulos Metropolitan of Nea Smyrni and Kalamaria, 1932–2015
• Dionysios Ladopoulos Metropolitan of Neapolis and Stavroupolis, 1929–2008
• Ambrose Stamenas Metropolitan of Paronaxia, 1922–2008
• Agathangelos Tampouratzakis Metropolitan of Nea Smyrni, 1929–2001
• Sergios Sigalas Metropolitan of Grevena, 1934–2014

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. Alexios Michalopoulos consecrated 22 August 1976
2. Prokopios Georgantopoulos Metropolitan of Nea Smyrni and Kalamaria, 1932–2015 consecrated 26 May 1974
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

• 27 January 1995Damaskinos Karpathakes Metropolitan of Didymoteixon, Orestias and Soufli, b. 1959
• 11 October 2015Chrysostom Nases Metropolitan of Trikki, Gardiki and Pyli, b. 1975
• 7 October 2017Theokletos Lambrinakos Metropolitan of Stagoi and Meteora, b. 1967

Sources

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