Cyril Moumtzes

Life

Born

6 March 1867

Ordained deacon

9 October 1888

Ordained priest

1893

Consecrated bishop

18 May 1897

Made metropolitan

18 May 1897

Died

1 April 1925

Sees

1. 18 May 1897 – 20 January 1925

   Metropolitan of Mytilini

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 20 January 1925 – 1 April 1925

   Metropolitan of Philadelphia

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 18 May 1897 by:

• Constantine V Valiades Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1833–1914
• Joachim Euthyvoules/Chiakes Metropolitan of Ephesus, 1855–1920
• Hieronymos Gorgias/Giourgas Metropolitan of Nicaea, 1837–1910
• Constantios Karatzopoulos Metropolitan of Trebizond, 1861–1906
• Basil Asteriou Metropolitan of Smyrna, 1834–1910
• Basil III Georgiades Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1840–1929
• Athanasios Kapouralis Metropolitan of Kastoria, 1850–1903
• Athanasios Megakles Metropolitan of Cyzicus, 1848–1909
• Benedict Adamantides Metropolitan of Proikonnisos, 1830–1906
• Dionysios Stavrides Metropolitan of Silybria, 1852–1913

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 3 generations back to Paisios; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Cyril Moumtzes Metropolitan of Philadelphia consecrated 18 May 1897
2. Basil III Georgiades Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1840–1929 consecrated 24 September 1889
3. Paisios Kourentis/Panagiotides Metropolitan of Imbros, 1830–1904 consecrated 22 December 1863
4. Paisios Metropolitan of Ephesus, 1778–1877 consecrated ca. 1819

Bishops he consecrated 7

• 22 August 1910Neophytos IV Evangelides Metropolitan of Elassona, 1871–1917
• 10 July 1911Joachim Martinianos/Martitses Metropolitan of Xanthi and Peritheorion, 1875–1953
• 30 January 1912Benjamin I Psomas/Kyriakou Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1871–1946
• 14 May 1912Apostolos Kavakopoulos Metropolitan of Leros and Astypalea, d. 1947
• 16 June 1913Apostolos Tryphonos Metropolitan of Amaseia, 1878–1957
• 16 March 1914Constantine Mengrelis/Mingrelis Metropolitan of Serrai and Nigrita, 1886–1963
• 15 August 1914Keladion Kantopoulos Metropolitan of Ptolemais, 1873–1944

Sources

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