Gerasimos Phokas

Life

Born

25 March 1951

Monastic tonsure

20 March 1988

Ordained deacon

9 July 1989

Ordained priest

30 April 1998

Made archimandrite

30 April 1998

Consecrated bishop

31 May 2015

Made metropolitan

31 May 2015

Died

22 June 2015

Sees

1. 31 May 2015 – 22 June 2015

   Metropolitan of Kefalonia

   Church of Greece

Consecration

Consecrated 31 May 2015 by:

• Hieronymos II Liapis Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, b. 1938
• Chrysostom Synetos Metropolitan of Dodoni, b. 1939
• Germanos Paraskevopoulos Metropolitan of Eleia and Oleni, 1932–2023
• Porphyrios Skikos Metropolitan of Thebaid, b. 1940
• Alexios Vrionis Metropolitan of Nikaia, b. 1944
• Hierotheos Vlachos Metropolitan of Nafpaktos and Agios Vlasios, b. 1944
• Ignatios Georgakopoulos Metropolitan of Demetrias and Almyros, b. 1956
• Theokletos Koumarianos Metropolitan of Vresthena, b. 1953
• Ephrem Stenakis Metropolitan of Ydra, Spetsai, Aigina, Poros, Troizena and Methana, b. 1948
• Andrew Nanankes Metropolitan of Arkalochorion, Kastelion and Viannos, b. 1957
• Chrysostom Triantaphyllou Metropolitan of Chalkis, Istiaia and Voreion Sporadon, b. 1957
• Paul Tsaousoglou Metropolitan of Glyfada, Elliniko, Voula, Vouliagmeni and Vari, 1943–2019
• Barnabas Tyres Metropolitan of Neapolis and Stavroupolis, b. 1958
• Paul Apostolides Metropolitan of Drama, 1963–2022
• Theodore Demetriou Metropolitan of Heliopolis, b. 1953
• Paul Ioannou Metropolitan of Sisanion and Siatista, 1947–2019
• George Mantzouranes Metropolitan of Thebes and Levadeia, b. 1952
• Gabriel Papanikolaou Metropolitan of Nea Ionia and Philadelphia, b. 1976
• Clement Koutsomytes Metropolitan of Peristerion, 1954–2021
• Chrysanthos Stellatos Bishop of Kernitsa, b. 1952

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. Gerasimos Phokas Metropolitan of Kefalonia consecrated 31 May 2015
2. Germanos Paraskevopoulos Metropolitan of Eleia and Oleni, 1932–2023 consecrated 3 October 1981
3. Iakovos Korozes Metropolitan of Kythira, 1927–2009 consecrated 2 March 1980
4. Gabriel Kalokairinos Metropolitan of Thera, Amorgos and Nisoi, 1910–1983 consecrated 17 November 1957
5. Maximos Tsaouses Metropolitan of Sardis, 1914–1986 consecrated 16 June 1946
6. Polycarp Demetriades Metropolitan of Prousa, 1892–1953 consecrated 25 December 1927
7. Alexander Nemolovsky Metropolitan of Brussels and Belgium, 1876–1960 consecrated 28 November 1909
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

Bishops he consecrated 1

• 1 June 2015Justin Bardakas Metropolitan of Nea Krini and Kalamaria, b. 1969