Nikodemos Farmakis

Life

Born

15 October 1971

Monastic tonsure

27 December 1990

Ordained deacon

23 January 1999

Ordained priest

30 January 1999

Consecrated bishop

19 October 2025

Sees

1. 19 October 2025 – present

   Bishop of Epidauros

   Church of Greece

Consecration

Consecrated 19 October 2025 by:

• Ephrem Stenakis Metropolitan of Ydra, Spetsai, Aigina, Poros, Troizena and Methana, b. 1948
• Chrysostom Triantaphyllou Metropolitan of Chalkis, Istiaia and Voreion Sporadon, b. 1957
• Barnabas Tyres Metropolitan of Neapolis and Stavroupolis, b. 1958
• Athenagoras Dikaiakos Metropolitan of Ilion, Acharnes and Petroupolis, b. 1951
• Gabriel Papanikolaou Metropolitan of Nea Ionia and Philadelphia, b. 1976
• Maximos Papagiannes Metropolitan of Ioannina, b. 1968
• Hieronymos Nikopoulos Metropolitan of Larisa and Tyrnavos, b. 1971
• Bartholomew Antoniou-Triantaphyllides Metropolitan of Poliana and Kilkis, b. 1969
• Damaskenos Kiametes Metropolitan of Aitolia and Acarnania, b. 1975
• Paul Kitsos Metropolitan of Corinth, b. 1967

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. Nikodemos Farmakis Bishop of Epidauros consecrated 19 October 2025
2. Maximos Papagiannes Metropolitan of Ioannina, b. 1968 consecrated 28 June 2014
3. Eumenios Tamiolakes Bishop of Levkada, b. 1945 consecrated 15 January 1994
4. Augustine Lambardakis Metropolitan of Germany, b. 1938 consecrated 26 March 1972
5. Emilianos Timiadis Metropolitan of Silybria, 1916–2008 consecrated 25 September 1960
6. Cassian Bezobrazov Bishop of Catania, 1892–1965 consecrated 28 July 1947
7. Vladimir Tikhonitskii Metropolitan of Białystok, 1873–1959 consecrated 3 June 1907
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

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr