Maximos Tsaouses

Life

Born

7 July 1914

Ordained deacon

1938

Ordained priest

5 October 1943

Consecrated bishop

16 June 1946

Made metropolitan

16 June 1946

Died

30 December 1986

Sees

1. 16 June 1946 – 30 December 1986

   Metropolitan of Sardis

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 16 June 1946 by:

• Maximos V Vaportzes Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1897–1972
• Polycarp Demetriades Metropolitan of Prousa, 1892–1953
• Leontios Liverios Metropolitan of Theodoroupolis, 1872–1964
• Meletios Loukakes Metropolitan of Christoupolis, 1862–1946
• Agathangelos Papatheodorou Metropolitan of Kydonia, 1885–1960
• Adamantios Kasapides Metropolitan of Pergamon, 1909–1958
• Cyril Axiotis Metropolitan of Chaldea, 1908–1991
• Maximos Georgiades Metropolitan of Laodicea, 1908–1979

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 9 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Maximos Tsaouses Metropolitan of Sardis consecrated 16 June 1946
2. Polycarp Demetriades Metropolitan of Prousa, 1892–1953 consecrated 25 December 1927
3. Alexander Nemolovsky Metropolitan of Brussels and Belgium, 1876–1960 consecrated 28 November 1909
4. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
5. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
6. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
7. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
8. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
9. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
10. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 13

• 6 October 1946Gerasimos Kalokairnos Bishop of Pamphilos, d. 1972
• 4 May 1947Gregory Markopoulos Bishop of Daphnousia, d. 1979
• 24 August 1947Theophylaktos Papathanasopoulos Metropolitan of Australia and New Zealand, 1891–1958
• 7 July 1950Iakovos Stefanidis Metropolitan of Iconium, 1916–1965
• 6 August 1950Apostolos Papaioannou Metropolitan of Ainos, 1915–1977
• 30 November 1950Meliton Hatzis Senior Metropolitan of Chalcedon, 1913–1989
• 2 December 1950Isidore Aedonopoulos Metropolitan of Leros, Kalymnos and Astypalea, 1911–1983
• 2 December 1951Kallinikos Zeles Bishop of Argyropolis, 1903–1985
• 1952Dionysios Psarianos Metropolitan of Servia and Kozani, 1912–1997
• 6 February 1955Iakovos Coucouzes Former Archbishop of North and South America, 1911–2005
• 17 November 1957Gabriel Kalokairinos Metropolitan of Thera, Amorgos and Nisoi, 1910–1983
• 25 December 1973Bartholomew I Archondonis Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, b. 1940
• 23 February 1975George Orphanides Metropolitan of Karpathos and Kasos, 1918–1991

Sources

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