Constantine Katsarakes

Life

Born

1887

Ordained deacon

14 September 1914

Ordained priest

26 January 1925

Consecrated bishop

20 December 1931

Retired

1976

Died

1 March 1980

Sees

1. 20 December 1931 – 27 November 1939

   Metropolitan of Carthage and All Mauritania

   Patriarchate of Alexandria

2. 27 November 1939 – 1976

   Metropolitan of Leontopolis

   Patriarchate of Alexandria

3. 1976 – 1 March 1980

   Former Metropolitan of Leontopolis

   Patriarchate of Alexandria

Consecration

Consecrated 20 December 1931 by:

• Meletios II Metaxakis Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, 1871–1935
• Theophanes Moschonas Metropolitan of Tripoli, 1864–1954
• Nicholas Abdallah/Theodoulou Metropolitan of Axium, 1890–1967
• Isidore Georgiades Metropolitan of Johannesburg, 1881–1938

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 5 generations back to Paisios; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Constantine Katsarakes Metropolitan of Leontopolis consecrated 20 December 1931
2. Isidore Georgiades Metropolitan of Johannesburg, 1881–1938 consecrated 1 April 1928
3. Keladion Kantopoulos Metropolitan of Ptolemais, 1873–1944 consecrated 15 August 1914
4. Basil III Georgiades Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1840–1929 consecrated 24 September 1889
5. Paisios Kourentis/Panagiotides Metropolitan of Imbros, 1830–1904 consecrated 22 December 1863
6. Paisios Metropolitan of Ephesus, 1778–1877 consecrated ca. 1819

Bishops he consecrated 4

• 1 July 1934Anthimos Rosmares Metropolitan of Ptolemais, 1897–1937
• 6 December 1940Hilarion Koiverakes Metropolitan of Memphis, 1897–1972
• 21 November 1942Athanasios Sphakianos Bishop of Mareotis, 1907–1953
• 25 January 1959Eustathios Eustathiou Metropolitan of Pentapolis, 1910–1982