Dorotheos III Kottaras

Life

Born

1888

Ordained deacon

18 September 1910

Ordained priest

18 December 1922

Consecrated bishop

20 December 1922

Made metropolitan

20 December 1922

Made archbishop

29 March 1956

Died

26 July 1957

Sees

1. 20 December 1922 – 1935

   Metropolitan of Kythira and Antikythira

   Church of Greece

2. 1935 – 29 March 1956

   Metropolitan of Larisa

   Church of Greece

3. 29 March 1956 – 26 July 1957

   Archbishop of Athens and All Greece

   Church of Greece

Consecration

Consecrated 20 December 1922 by:

• Ambrose Nikolaides Metropolitan of Phthiotis, 1880–1958
• Athanasios Leventopoulos Metropolitan of Syros, Tinos, Andros and Kea, 1865–1929

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 5 generations back to Paisios; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Dorotheos III Kottaras Archbishop of Athens and All Greece consecrated 20 December 1922
2. Ambrose Nikolaides Metropolitan of Phthiotis, 1880–1958 consecrated 5 June 1911
3. Apostolos Christodoulou Metropolitan of Serrai, 1856–1917 consecrated 8 July 1901
4. Stephen Soulides Metropolitan of Methymna, 1847–1915 consecrated 4 October 1887
5. Paisios Kourentis/Panagiotides Metropolitan of Imbros, 1830–1904 consecrated 22 December 1863
6. Paisios Metropolitan of Ephesus, 1778–1877 consecrated ca. 1819

Bishops he consecrated 6

• December 1922Athenagoras Spyrou Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1886–1972
• 22 December 1922Andrew Triantaphyllou Metropolitan of Triphylia and Olympia, 1883–1938
• 24 December 1922Anthony PoLevkadas Metropolitan of Elaia, 1890–1963
• 22 March 1936Athanasios Parises Former Metropolitan of Fokis, 1885–1967
• 9 December 1936Kallinikos Charalambakis Metropolitan of Veroia and Naousa, 1893–1978
• 1952Dionysios Psarianos Metropolitan of Servia and Kozani, 1912–1997

Sources

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