Benedict Adamantides

Life

Born

1830

Consecrated bishop

18 June 1877

Made metropolitan

18 June 1877

Retired

7 March 1900

Died

16 August 1906

Sees

1. 18 June 1877 – 1881

   Metropolitan of Anchialos

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 1881 – 1886

   Metropolitan of Ganos and Chora

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

3. 1886 – 1893

   Metropolitan of Pisidia

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

4. 1893 – 7 March 1900

   Metropolitan of Proikonnisos

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

5. 7 March 1900 – 16 August 1906

   Former Metropolitan of Proikonnisos

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 18 June 1877 by:

• Joachim IV Krousouloudes Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1837–1887
• 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. Benedict Adamantides Metropolitan of Proikonnisos consecrated 18 June 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 2

• 18 May 1897Cyril Moumtzes Metropolitan of Philadelphia, 1867–1925
• 9 November 1897Melissenos Christodoulou Metropolitan of Maroneia, 1855–1920