Stephen Soulimiotis

Life

Born

1968

Monastic tonsure

19 August 1994

Ordained deacon

18 September 1994

Ordained priest

27 December 1997

Consecrated bishop

3 March 2024

Sees

1. 3 March 2024 – present

   Bishop of Hippo

   Vicar of the Patriarch of Alexandria · Patriarchate of Alexandria

Consecration

Consecrated 3 March 2024 by:

• Theodore II Choreftakis Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, b. 1954
• Gabriel Raftopoulos Metropolitan of Leontopolis, b. 1957
• Cyril Kogerakis Metropolitan of Rhodes, b. 1964
• Nicholas Antonioiu Metropolitan of Hermopolis, b. 1944
• Athenagoras Dikaiakos Metropolitan of Ilion, Acharnes and Petroupolis, b. 1951
• Anthony Avramiotes Metropolitan of Glyfada, Elliniko, Voula, Vouliagmeni and Vari, b. 1957
• Meletios Koumanis Metropolitan of Carthage, b. 1970
• Hieronymos Nikopoulos Metropolitan of Larisa and Tyrnavos, b. 1971
• Theodosios Tsitsivos Metropolitan of Kinshasa, b. 1971
• Prodromos Katsoules Bishop of Toliara and Southern Madagascar, b. 1982
• Methodios Vernidakes Bishop of Knosos, b. 1969
• Cosmas Thasites Bishop of Constantianis, b. 1975

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. Stephen Soulimiotis Bishop of Hippo consecrated 3 March 2024
2. Cyril Kogerakis Metropolitan of Rhodes, b. 1964 consecrated 25 April 2004
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

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr