Basil III Georgiades

Life

Born

1840

Ordained deacon

23 December 1884

Ordained priest

25 December 1884

Made archimandrite

25 December 1884

Consecrated bishop

24 September 1889

Made metropolitan

24 September 1889

Became patriarch

13 July 1925

Died

29 September 1929

Sees

1. 24 September 1889 – 1909

   Metropolitan of Anchialos

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 1909 – 1910

   Metropolitan of Pelagia

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

3. 1910 – 13 July 1925

   Metropolitan of Nicaea

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

4. 13 July 1925 – 29 September 1929

   Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 24 September 1889 by:

• Sophronios Chrestides Metropolitan of Ioannina, 1826–1910
• Hieronymos Gorgias/Giourgas Metropolitan of Nicaea, 1837–1910
• Joachim Euthyvoules/Chiakes Metropolitan of Ephesus, 1855–1920
• Dionysios Kardaras Metropolitan of Ganos and Chora, 1817–1897
• Germanos Apostolides Metropolitan of Silybria, b. 1836
• Paisios Kourentis/Panagiotides Metropolitan of Imbros, 1830–1904
• Kallinikos Metropolitan of Moglen, 1820–1911
• Ignatios Metropolitan of Proikonnisos, d. 1893

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 Paisios; earlier links are not yet in the data.

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

Bishops he consecrated 8

• 18 May 1897Cyril Moumtzes Metropolitan of Philadelphia, 1867–1925
• 15 August 1914Keladion Kantopoulos Metropolitan of Ptolemais, 1873–1944
• 27 February 1922Cyril Authentoulides/Aphentoulides Metropolitan of Poliana and Kilkis, d. 1942
• 30 November 1922Neophytos Apostolides Metropolitan of Siderokastron, d. 1929
• 4 March 1923Savvatij Vrabec Archbishop of Prague and All Czechoslovakia, 1880–1959
• 16 March 1924Germanos Athanasiades Metropolitan of Sardis, 1885–1945
• 4 April 1926Iakovos Papapaisiou Metropolitan of Derka, 1885–1980
• 25 December 1927Polycarp Demetriades Metropolitan of Prousa, 1892–1953