Theodoritos Polyzogopoulos

Life

Born

1948

Ordained deacon

9 September 1972

Ordained priest

17 September 1972

Consecrated bishop

18 March 2000

Made metropolitan

29 August 2018

Sees

1. 18 March 2000 – 2009

   Bishop of Nazianzos

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 2009 – 29 August 2018

   Former Bishop of Nazianzos

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

3. 29 August 2018 – present

   Metropolitan of Laodicea

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 18 March 2000 by:

• Gregory Theocharous Archbishop of Thyateira and Great Britain, 1928–2019
• Iakovos Sophroniades Metropolitan of the Princes' Islands, 1947–2018
• Demetrios Kommatas Metropolitan of the Princes' Islands, b. 1952

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. Theodoritos Polyzogopoulos Metropolitan of Laodicea consecrated 18 March 2000
2. Iakovos Sophroniades Metropolitan of the Princes' Islands, 1947–2018 consecrated 25 December 1987
3. Kallinikos Alexandrides Metropolitan of Lystra, 1926–2014 consecrated 6 December 1970
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

Bishops he consecrated 5

• 25 October 2009Theoktistos Kloukinas Metropolitan of Phokida, b. 1950
• 11 March 2012Iakovos Bizaourtis Bishop of Thaumakos, b. 1948
• 1 March 2014George Chrysostomou Metropolitan of Kitros, Katerini and Platamon, b. 1964
• 28 June 2014Maximos Papagiannes Metropolitan of Ioannina, b. 1968
• 14 October 2019Eustratios Kalogeropoulos Metropolitan of Lemnos and Agios Eustratios, b. 1962