Spyridon Vlachos

Life

Born

1873

Ordained priest

1901

Consecrated bishop

16 July 1906

Made metropolitan

16 July 1906

Made archbishop

4 June 1949

Died

21 March 1956

Sees

1. 16 July 1906 – 1916

   Metropolitan of Vellas and Konitsa

   Church of Greece

2. 1916 – 4 June 1949

   Metropolitan of Ioannina

   Church of Greece

3. 4 June 1949 – 21 March 1956

   Archbishop of Athens and All Greece

   Church of Greece

Consecration

Consecrated 16 July 1906 by:

• Athanasios Megakles Metropolitan of Cyzicus, 1848–1909
• Constantine VI Arampoglou/Karatzopoulos Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1857–1930
• Stephen Soulides Metropolitan of Methymna, 1847–1915
• Nicholas Sakkopoulos Metropolitan of Chalcedon, 1862–1927
• Dionysios Stavrides Metropolitan of Silybria, 1852–1913
• Serapheim Skaroules Metropolitan of Ganos and Chora, 1852–1913
• Polycarp Psomiades Metropolitan of Xanthi, 1864–1939

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 3 generations back to Paisios; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Spyridon Vlachos Archbishop of Athens and All Greece consecrated 16 July 1906
2. Stephen Soulides Metropolitan of Methymna, 1847–1915 consecrated 4 October 1887
3. Paisios Kourentis/Panagiotides Metropolitan of Imbros, 1830–1904 consecrated 22 December 1863
4. Paisios Metropolitan of Ephesus, 1778–1877 consecrated ca. 1819

Bishops he consecrated 8

• 20 January 1908Chrysostom Papachrestou Metropolitan of Tyroloë and Serention, 1868–1958
• 12 December 1910Christopher Knetes Metropolitan of Vizya, 1872–1958
• 18 March 1912Panaretos Xanthopoulos Metropolitan of Vella and Koinitsa, 1873–1926
• 8 August 1926Demetrios Pappas/Chatzeeuthymiou Metropolitan of Ioannina, 1882–1958
• 17 June 1934Prokopios Tzavaras Metropolitan of Corinth, 1888–1964
• 18 September 1949Alexios Ingleses Metropolitan of Zakynthos, 1911–1966
• 24 September 1950Damaskinos Chatzopoulos Metropolitan of Demetrias and Almyros, 1913–1977
• 1952Dionysios Psarianos Metropolitan of Servia and Kozani, 1912–1997

Sources

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