Irinarchos Leontides

Life

Born

1876

Consecrated bishop

12 February 1943

Made archbishop

12 February 1943

Died

6 February 1958

Sees

1. 12 February 1943 – 6 February 1958

   Archbishop of Diocaesarea

   Patriarchate of Jerusalem

Consecration

Consecrated 12 February 1943 by:

• Timothy I Themeles Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem and All Palestine, 1878–1955
• Panteleimon Athanasiades Archbishop of Neapolis, 1870–1948
• Methodios Kretikides Archbishop of Pella, 1869–1948
• Basil Lemonides Archbishop of Ashkelon, 1868–1945
• Vissarion Bekiares Archbishop of Thabor, 1884–1974

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 Damian Kasiotes; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Irinarchos Leontides Archbishop of Diocaesarea consecrated 12 February 1943
2. Timothy I Themeles Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem and All Palestine, 1878–1955 consecrated 27 August 1921
3. Damian Kasiotes Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem and All Palestine, 1848–1931 consecrated 28 February 1893

Bishops he consecrated 2

• 20 August 1944Philotheos Philippides Archbishop of Eleutheroupolis, 1884–1958
• 17 October 1955Klaudios Papastamatiou Archbishop of Pella, 1898–1985