Theophilos Mantzavrakos

Life

Born

1976

Monastic tonsure

2000

Ordained deacon

30 January 2000

Ordained priest

8 March 2002

Made archimandrite

25 March 2009

Elected bishop

9 October 2023

Consecrated bishop

23 October 2023

Sees

1. 23 October 2023 – present

   Bishop of Lakedaimon

   Vicar of Monemvasia · Church of Greece

Consecration

Consecrated 23 October 2023 by:

• Eustathios Speliotes Metropolitan of Monemvasia and Sparta, b. 1940
• Panteleimon Kalaphates Metropolitan of Xanthi and Peritheorion, b. 1943
• Chrysostom Sklephas Metropolitan of Patrai, b. 1958
• Chrysostom Savvatos Metropolitan of Messenia, b. 1961
• Panteleimon Moutaphes Metropolitan of Maroneia and Komotini, b. 1970
• Chrysostom Pitsis Metropolitan of Symi, b. 1967
• Philotheos Theochares Metropolitan of Thessaloniki, b. 1977
• Prodromos Katsoules Bishop of Toliara and Southern Madagascar, b. 1982

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 12 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Theophilos Mantzavrakos Bishop of Lakedaimon consecrated 23 October 2023
2. Chrysostom Pitsis Metropolitan of Symi, b. 1967 consecrated 7 February 2018
3. Bartholomew I Archondonis Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, b. 1940 consecrated 25 December 1973
4. Chrysostom Koronaios Metropolitan of Neocaesarea, 1894–1976 consecrated 7 May 1944
5. Polycarp Demetriades Metropolitan of Prousa, 1892–1953 consecrated 25 December 1927
6. Alexander Nemolovsky Metropolitan of Brussels and Belgium, 1876–1960 consecrated 28 November 1909
7. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
8. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
9. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
10. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
11. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
12. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
13. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 2

• 19 October 2024Sophronios Gutzinis Bishop of Polystylon, b. 1967
• 30 November 2025Anthony Patros Bishop of Rodostolon, b. 1964

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr