Paisios Loulourgas

Life

Born

1945

Monastic tonsure

1963

Ordained deacon

4 April 1998

Ordained priest

5 April 1998

Consecrated bishop

11 April 1998

Made metropolitan

11 April 1998

Defrocked

28 March 2012

Sees

1. 11 April 1998 – 28 March 2012

   Metropolitan of Tyana

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 28 March 2012 – present

   Layperson

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 11 April 1998 by:

• Joachim Nerantzoules Senior Metropolitan of Nicomedia, 1942–2023
• Kallinikos Alexandrides Metropolitan of Lystra, 1926–2014
• Meliton Karas Metropolitan of Philadelphia, 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. Paisios Loulourgas Metropolitan of Tyana consecrated 11 April 1998
2. Kallinikos Alexandrides Metropolitan of Lystra, 1926–2014 consecrated 6 December 1970
3. Chrysostom Koronaios Metropolitan of Neocaesarea, 1894–1976 consecrated 7 May 1944
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 4

• 31 May 1998Dimitrios Couchell Metropolitan of Xanthi, b. 1938
• 23 June 1998Demetrios Koutsogeorgas Metropolitan of Xanthos, 1938–2026
• 22 January 2000Daniel Pourtsoukles Metropolitan of Kaisariani, Vyron and Ymittos, b. 1952
• 14 January 2001Ephrem Stenakis Metropolitan of Ydra, Spetsai, Aigina, Poros, Troizena and Methana, b. 1948