Nikephoros Levanterides

Life

Born

1854

Consecrated bishop

30 August 1892

Died

21 March 1931

Sees

1. 30 August 1892 – 27 September 1897

   Metropolitan of Nevrokop

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 27 September 1897 – 8 February 1907

   Metropolitan of Lititsa

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

3. 8 February 1907 – 15 February 1911

   Metropolitan of Tyroloë and Serention

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

4. 15 February 1911 – 21 March 1931

   Metropolitan of Mesembria

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 30 August 1892 by:

• Germanos V Kavakopoulos Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1835–1920
• Philotheos Konstantinides Metropolitan of Imbros, 1844–1904
• Gervasios Soumelides Metropolitan of Chaldea and Cheroianon, 1820–1906

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 2 generations back to Dionysios Kotakes; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Nikephoros Levanterides Metropolitan of Mesembria consecrated 30 August 1892
2. Gervasios Soumelides Metropolitan of Chaldea and Cheroianon, 1820–1906 consecrated 9 August 1864
3. Dionysios Kotakes Metropolitan of Nicomedia, 1790–1877 consecrated October 1821

Bishops he consecrated 6

• 21 January 1901Nićifor Perić Metropolitan of Raška and Prizren, 1862–1918
• 6 August 1901Gervasios Sarasites Metropolitan of Alexandroupolis, 1867–1934
• 3 November 1902Gregory Horologas (Saatsoglu)/Antoniades Metropolitan of Kydonia, 1864–1922
• 17 November 1902Joachim Leptides Metropolitan of Kastoria, 1871–1931
• 1 December 1902Joachim Georgiades/Galakes Metropolitan of Chalcedon, 1875–1927
• 23 February 1903Constantine Vontzalides Metropolitan of Samos and Ikaria, 1857–1926