Germanos Polizoides

Life

Born

1898

Ordained deacon

1919

Ordained priest

1927

Made archimandrite

1931

Consecrated bishop

30 November 1941

Retired

1962

Made metropolitan

17 April 1962

Died

13 July 1993

Sees

1. 30 November 1941 – 17 April 1962

   Bishop of Nyssa

   Vicar of America · Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 17 April 1962 – 1962

   Metropolitan of Hierapolis

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

3. 1962 – 13 July 1993

   Former Metropolitan of Hierapolis

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 30 November 1941 by:

• Athenagoras Spyrou Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1886–1972
• Sawa Sowietow Archbishop of Hrodna, 1898–1951
• Athenagoras Cavadas Archbishop of Thyateira and Great Britain, 1885–1962
• Eireneos Tsourounakes Bishop of San Francisco, 1890–1944
• Bogdan Shpylka Metropolitan of Evkarpia, 1892–1965

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. Germanos Polizoides Metropolitan of Hierapolis consecrated 30 November 1941
2. Athenagoras Spyrou Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1886–1972 consecrated December 1922
3. Dorotheos III Kottaras Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1888–1957 consecrated 20 December 1922
4. Ambrose Nikolaides Metropolitan of Phthiotis, 1880–1958 consecrated 5 June 1911
5. Apostolos Christodoulou Metropolitan of Serrai, 1856–1917 consecrated 8 July 1901
6. Stephen Soulides Metropolitan of Methymna, 1847–1915 consecrated 4 October 1887
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 2

• 14 September 1950Athenagoras Kokkinakis Archbishop of Thyateira and Great Britain, 1912–1979
• 28 January 1967Andrew Kuschak Metropolitan of Evkarpia, 1901–1986

Sources

Also in: Wikidata