Gennadios Zesiades

Life

Born

November 1879

Ordained deacon

6 August 1903

Ordained priest

1909

Consecrated bishop

11 April 1926

Died

25 July 1939

Sees

1. 11 April 1926 – 25 July 1939

   Bishop of Chariopolis

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 11 April 1926 by:

• Germanos Athanasiades Metropolitan of Sardis, 1885–1945
• Cyril Ioannou/Chatzepapademetriou Metropolitan of Rodopolis, 1872–1944
• Thomas Savvopoulos Senior Metropolitan of Chalcedon, 1889–1996

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 4 generations back to Paisios; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Gennadios Zesiades Bishop of Chariopolis consecrated 11 April 1926
2. Germanos Athanasiades Metropolitan of Sardis, 1885–1945 consecrated 16 March 1924
3. Basil III Georgiades Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1840–1929 consecrated 24 September 1889
4. Paisios Kourentis/Panagiotides Metropolitan of Imbros, 1830–1904 consecrated 22 December 1863
5. Paisios Metropolitan of Ephesus, 1778–1877 consecrated ca. 1819