Theoleptos Phenerles

Life

Born

17 April 1957

Ordained deacon

27 April 1977

Ordained priest

21 November 1997

Consecrated bishop

10 September 2000

Made metropolitan

10 September 2000

Died

18 June 2026

Sees

1. 10 September 2000 – 18 June 2026

   Metropolitan of Iconium

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 10 September 2000 by:

• Bartholomew I Archondonis Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, b. 1940
• Kallinikos Alexandrides Metropolitan of Lystra, 1926–2014
• Constantine Charisiades Metropolitan of Nicaea, 1929–2021
• Theokletos Rokas Metropolitan of Metrai and Athyra, 1939–2004
• Nikodemos Anagnostou Metropolitan of Ierissos, Agion Oros and Ardamerion, 1931–2012
• Iakovos Sophroniades Metropolitan of the Princes' Islands, 1947–2018
• Meliton Karas Metropolitan of Philadelphia, b. 1951
• Demetrios Kommatas Metropolitan of the Princes' Islands, b. 1952
• Eireneos Ioannides Metropolitan of Myriofytos and Peristasi, b. 1951

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 11 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Theoleptos Phenerles Metropolitan of Iconium consecrated 10 September 2000
2. Constantine Charisiades Metropolitan of Nicaea, 1929–2021 consecrated 16 January 1972
3. Maximos Georgiades Metropolitan of Laodicea, 1908–1979 consecrated 9 June 1946
4. Polycarp Demetriades Metropolitan of Prousa, 1892–1953 consecrated 25 December 1927
5. Alexander Nemolovsky Metropolitan of Brussels and Belgium, 1876–1960 consecrated 28 November 1909
6. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
7. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
8. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
9. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
10. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
11. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
12. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 13

• 13 March 2011Stephen Dinides Metropolitan of Kallioupolis and Madytos, b. 1968
• 20 March 2011Elpidophoros Lambriniadis Archbishop of America, b. 1967
• 2 February 2014Nikephoros Psychloudis Bishop of Amorion, b. 1958
• 18 October 2014Amphilochios Stergiou Metropolitan of Adrianopolis, b. 1961
• 8 October 2017Stephen Tolios Metropolitan of Filippoi, Neapolis and Thasos, b. 1960
• 21 January 2018Cassian Notes Bishop of Arabissos, b. 1978
• 3 November 2019Benjamin Demopoulos Bishop of Tralles, b. 1971
• 8 December 2019Eireneos Verykakes Bishop of Evmenia, b. 1973
• 15 December 2019Damaskinos Lionakes Bishop of Dorylaion, b. 1979
• 8 November 2020Michael Anishchenko Komanon of Komanon, b. 1976
• 25 January 2021Vissarion Komzias Metropolitan of Spain and Portugal, b. 1975
• 25 December 2023Theodore Meimaris Metropolitan of Seleucia, b. 1979
• 31 May 2026Panaretos Psaraftis Bishop of Tamisos, b. 1980

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr

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