Polycarp Psomiades

Life

Born

1864

Ordained deacon

8 September 1888

Ordained priest

August 1892

Consecrated bishop

16 May 1899

Made metropolitan

16 May 1899

Retired

17 August 1935

Died

23 July 1939

Sees

1. 16 May 1899 – 1911

   Metropolitan of Koloneia

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 1911 – 1922

   Metropolitan of Neocaesarea

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

3. 1911 – 17 August 1935

   Metropolitan of Xanthi

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

4. 17 August 1935 – 23 July 1939

   Former Metropolitan of Xanthi

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 16 May 1899 by:

• Kallinikos Photiades Metropolitan of Ephesus, 1841–1926
• Constantios Isaakidis Metropolitan of Ganos and Chora, 1837–1907
• 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. Polycarp Psomiades Metropolitan of Xanthi consecrated 16 May 1899
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 14

• 22 May 1905Laurence Papadopoulos Metropolitan of Drama, 1868–1928
• 9 October 1905Gennadios Alexiades Metropolitan of Thessaloniki, 1868–1951
• 28 May 1906Athanasios Laskares/Vavalises Former Metropolitan of Argolis, 1869–1925
• 16 July 1906Spyridon Vlachos Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1873–1956
• 8 October 1906Hierotheos Anthoulides Metropolitan of Sisanion and Siatista, 1877–1920
• 6 November 1906Leontios Liverios Metropolitan of Theodoroupolis, 1872–1964
• 25 February 1907Nikodemos Neokles/Papageorgiou Metropolitan of Lititsa, d. 1930
• 22 August 1910Neophytos IV Evangelides Metropolitan of Elassona, 1871–1917
• 12 December 1910Christopher Knetes Metropolitan of Vizya, 1872–1958
• 29 December 1913Gervasios Soumelides Metropolitan of Grevena, 1882–1943
• 16 March 1914Constantine Mengrelis/Mingrelis Metropolitan of Serrai and Nigrita, 1886–1963
• 4 May 1914Joachim Apostolides Metropolitan of Servia and Kozani, 1883–1962
• 15 August 1914Keladion Kantopoulos Metropolitan of Ptolemais, 1873–1944
• 11 March 1922Thomas Savvopoulos Senior Metropolitan of Chalcedon, 1889–1996