Athanasios Masaba

Life

Born

1971

Ordained deacon

12 April 1998

Ordained priest

25 July 2002

Made archimandrite

18 January 2010

Consecrated bishop

24 November 2015

Died

4 January 2019

Sees

1. 24 November 2015 – 4 January 2019

   Bishop of Kisumu and All Western Kenya

   Patriarchate of Alexandria

Consecration

Consecrated 24 November 2015 by:

• Theodore II Choreftakis Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, b. 1954
• Gabriel Raftopoulos Metropolitan of Leontopolis, b. 1957
• Makarios Tillyrides Archbishop of Kenya, b. 1945
• Alexander Gianniris Metropolitan of Nigeria, b. 1960
• Nicholas Antonioiu Metropolitan of Hermopolis, b. 1944
• Nikodemos Priangelos Metropolitan of Memphis, b. 1967
• Nephon Tsavaris Metropolitan of Pelusium, b. 1959
• John Tsaftaridis Metropolitan of Zambia and Mozambique, b. 1969
• Chrysostom Karagounis Bishop of Mozambique, 1960–2021
• Neophytus Kongai Metropolitan of Eldoret, b. 1970

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 14 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Athanasios Masaba Bishop of Kisumu and All Western Kenya consecrated 24 November 2015
2. Nikodemos Priangelos Metropolitan of Memphis, b. 1967 consecrated 12 November 2006
3. Damaskinos Karpathakes Metropolitan of Didymoteixon, Orestias and Soufli, b. 1959 consecrated 27 January 1995
4. Iakovos Korozes Metropolitan of Kythira, 1927–2009 consecrated 2 March 1980
5. Gabriel Kalokairinos Metropolitan of Thera, Amorgos and Nisoi, 1910–1983 consecrated 17 November 1957
6. Maximos Tsaouses Metropolitan of Sardis, 1914–1986 consecrated 16 June 1946
7. Polycarp Demetriades Metropolitan of Prousa, 1892–1953 consecrated 25 December 1927
8. Alexander Nemolovsky Metropolitan of Brussels and Belgium, 1876–1960 consecrated 28 November 1909
9. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
10. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
11. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
12. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
13. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
14. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
15. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Sources

Also in: Wikidata