Demetrios Bekiares

Life

Born

1948

Monastic tonsure

6 September 1975

Ordained deacon

8 September 1975

Ordained priest

14 January 1976

Elected bishop

10 October 1989

Consecrated bishop

15 October 1989

Sees

1. 15 October 1989 – 10 September 1991

   Metropolitan of Larisa and Tyrnavos

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 10 September 1991 – present

   Metropolitan of Goumenissa, Axiopolis and Polykastron

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 15 October 1989 by:

• Serapheim Tikas Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1913–1998
• Prokopios Tsakoumakas Metropolitan of Filippoi, Neapolis and Thasos, 1939–2017
• Cleopas Thomopoulos Metropolitan of Thessaliotis and Phanariopharsala, 1913–1999
• Ambrose Stamenas Metropolitan of Paronaxia, 1922–2008
• Agathangelos Tampouratzakis Metropolitan of Nea Smyrni, 1929–2001
• Chrysostom Zafeires Former Metropolitan of Peristerion, 1935–2019
• Panteleimon Bezenitis Metropolitan of Attica, 1938–2014
• Iakovos Korozes Metropolitan of Kythira, 1927–2009
• Agathonikos Fatouros Former Metropolitan of Kitros and Katerini, b. 1937
• Hierotheos Garyphallos Metropolitan of Lemnos and Agios Eustratios, 1934–2019
• Chrysostom Synetos Metropolitan of Dodoni, b. 1939

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. Demetrios Bekiares Metropolitan of Goumenissa, Axiopolis and Polykastron consecrated 15 October 1989
2. Iakovos Korozes Metropolitan of Kythira, 1927–2009 consecrated 2 March 1980
3. Gabriel Kalokairinos Metropolitan of Thera, Amorgos and Nisoi, 1910–1983 consecrated 17 November 1957
4. Maximos Tsaouses Metropolitan of Sardis, 1914–1986 consecrated 16 June 1946
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 4

• 5 October 1996Serapheim Papakostas Metropolitan of Kastoria, cons. 1996
• 10 October 1998Ignatios Georgakopoulos Metropolitan of Demetrias and Almyros, b. 1956
• 16 October 2022Dorotheos Papares Metropolitan of Drama, b. 1957
• 15 October 2024Stephen Devrelis Bishop of Almopia, b. 1972

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr

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