Daniel Biazes

Life

Born

1977

Ordained deacon

25 December 1997

Ordained priest

17 September 2006

Consecrated bishop

5 December 2018

Made metropolitan

5 December 2018

Sees

1. 5 December 2018 – 15 February 2024

   Metropolitan of Axium

   Patriarchate of Alexandria

2. 15 February 2024 – present

   Metropolitan of Accra

   Patriarchate of Alexandria

Consecration

Consecrated 5 December 2018 by:

• Theodore II Choreftakis Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, b. 1954
• Chrysostom Synetos Metropolitan of Dodoni, b. 1939
• John Tsaftaridis Metropolitan of Zambia and Mozambique, b. 1969
• Narkissos Gammoh Metropolitan of Pelusium, b. 1968
• Theodore Dridakes Metropolitan of Brazzaville and Gabon, b. 1966

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. Daniel Biazes Metropolitan of Accra consecrated 5 December 2018
2. Chrysostom Synetos Metropolitan of Dodoni, b. 1939 consecrated 16 August 1976
3. Spyridon Kyvetos Metropolitan of Zichnai and Nevrokopion, 1919–2003 consecrated 27 May 1974
4. Chrysostom Themelis Metropolitan of Messenia, 1918–2007 consecrated 21 November 1957
5. Iakovos Coucouzes Former Archbishop of North and South America, 1911–2005 consecrated 6 February 1955
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

Bishops he consecrated 5

• 23 December 2018Photios Chatzeantoniou Metropolitan of Lilongwe, b. 1954
• 17 February 2022Nikodemos Totkas Metropolitan of Nigeria, b. 1975
• 20 February 2022Chrysostomos Maidones Bishop of Bukoba, b. 1956
• 1 November 2025Damaskinos Al Azrai Bishop of Mareotis, b. 1987
• 2 November 2025Joachim Skretas Bishop of Kigali and Rwanda, b. 1960

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr