Hieronymos Gorgias/Giourgas

Life

Born

7 January 1837

Ordained deacon

2 March 1853

Ordained priest

24 July 1877

Consecrated bishop

27 July 1877

Died

29 March 1910

Sees

1. 27 July 1877 – 1885

   Metropolitan of Maroneia

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 1885 – 1890

   Metropolitan of Nikopolis and Preveza

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

3. 1890 – 1897

   Metropolitan of Nicaea

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

4. 1897 – 1902

   Metropolitan of Heraclea

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

5. 1902 – 29 March 1910

   Metropolitan of Nicaea

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 27 July 1877 by:

• Joachim II Kokkodes Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1802–1878
• Agathangelos Scholarios/Gavrielides Metropolitan of Ephesus, 1818–1893
• Nikodemos Konstantinides Metropolitan of Cyzicus, 1826–1900
• Gregory Nemtsov Metropolitan of Dorostol and Cherven, 1828–1898
• Chrysanthos Metropolitan of Ancyra, d. 1877
• Cyril Metropolitan of Grevena, 1833–1888
• Ambrose Konstantinides Metropolitan of Nikopolis and Preveza, 1841–1885
• 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. Hieronymos Gorgias/Giourgas Metropolitan of Nicaea consecrated 27 July 1877
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 17

• 14 August 1877Photios Maniates Metropolitan of Servia and Kozani, 1840–1925
• 23 October 1888Dionysios Stavrides Metropolitan of Silybria, 1852–1913
• 30 October 1888Chrysanthos Hierokles Metropolitan of Maroneia, 1845–1893
• 20 November 1888Gregory Metropolitan of Nevrokop, 1821–1909
• 30 November 1888Gerasimos Bishop of Eudoxia, d. 1892
• 23 July 1889Athanasios Eliades Metropolitan of Iconium, 1844–1911
• 24 September 1889Basil III Georgiades Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1840–1929
• 14 January 1890Joachim Sgouros Metropolitan of Thessaloniki, 1864–1912
• 6 June 1894Polycarp Varvakes/Vardakis Former Metropolitan of Chios, 1862–1945
• 16 July 1894Joachim Valasiades Metropolitan of Nikopolis and Preveza, d. 1933
• 18 February 1896Constantine Mikroules Metropolitan of Sozoagathopolis, 1857–1939
• 25 February 1896Germanos Karavangelis Metropolitan of Amaseia, 1866–1935
• 18 May 1897Cyril Moumtzes Metropolitan of Philadelphia, 1867–1925
• 7 May 1906Eugene Papathomas Metropolitan of Silybria, 1855–1934
• 13 September 1909Kallinikos Delikanes Metropolitan of Caesarea, 1855–1934
• 27 September 1909Gregory Papadopoulos Metropolitan of Metrai and Athyra, d. 1936
• 4 October 1909Cyril Ioannou/Chatzepapademetriou Metropolitan of Rodopolis, 1872–1944

Sources

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