Paul Giannikopoulos

Life

Born

1929

Ordained deacon

1951

Ordained priest

1954

Consecrated bishop

24 November 1968

Made metropolitan

24 November 1968

Died

27 August 1993

Sees

1. 24 November 1968 – 27 August 1993

   Metropolitan of Veroia and Naousa

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 24 November 1968 by:

• Constantine Poulos Metropolitan of Didymoteixon and Orestias, 1912–1994
• Dionysios Kyratsos Metropolitan of Drama, 1923–2005
• Chariton Symeonides Metropolitan of Poliana and Kilkis, 1912–1987
• Nikodemos Vallindras Metropolitan of Patrai, 1915–2008
• Kallinikos Poulos Metropolitan of Edessa, Pella and Almopia, 1918–1984
• Leonid Paraskevopoulos Metropolitan of Reontos, 1904–1984

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 7 generations back to Paisios; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Paul Giannikopoulos Metropolitan of Veroia and Naousa consecrated 24 November 1968
2. Constantine Poulos Metropolitan of Didymoteixon and Orestias, 1912–1994 consecrated 13 November 1957
3. Iakovos III Vavanatsos Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1895–1984 consecrated 11 January 1935
4. Constantine Mengrelis/Mingrelis Metropolitan of Serrai and Nigrita, 1886–1963 consecrated 16 March 1914
5. Cyril Moumtzes Metropolitan of Philadelphia, 1867–1925 consecrated 18 May 1897
6. Basil III Georgiades Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1840–1929 consecrated 24 September 1889
7. Paisios Kourentis/Panagiotides Metropolitan of Imbros, 1830–1904 consecrated 22 December 1863
8. Paisios Metropolitan of Ephesus, 1778–1877 consecrated ca. 1819

Bishops he consecrated 3

• 26 May 1974Dionysios Ladopoulos Metropolitan of Neapolis and Stavroupolis, 1929–2008
• 28 January 1979Nicholas Drosos Metropolitan of Karpenision, 1929–2019
• 6 May 1984Chrysostom Kalamatianos Metropolitan of Methymna, b. 1930

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr