Germanos Athanasiades

Life

Born

15 October 1885

Ordained deacon

8 November 1906

Ordained priest

30 November 1922

Consecrated bishop

16 March 1924

Made metropolitan

16 March 1924

Died

3 March 1945

Sees

1. 16 March 1924 – 1924

   Metropolitan of Sardis

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 1924 – 1943

   Metropolitan of Pisidia

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

3. 1943 – 3 March 1945

   Metropolitan of Sardis

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 16 March 1924 by:

• Gregory VII Zervoudakes/Papadostavrinos Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1850–1924
• Basil III Georgiades Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1840–1929
• Constantine VI Arampoglou/Karatzopoulos Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1857–1930
• Agathangelos Konstantinides Metropolitan of Ephesus, 1864–1935
• Eugene Papathomas Metropolitan of Silybria, 1855–1934
• Thomas Savvopoulos Senior Metropolitan of Chalcedon, 1889–1996

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. Germanos Athanasiades Metropolitan of Sardis consecrated 16 March 1924
2. Basil III Georgiades Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1840–1929 consecrated 24 September 1889
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 2

• 11 April 1926Gennadios Zesiades Bishop of Chariopolis, 1879–1939
• 18 September 1938Orestes Chornock Metropolitan of Agathonica, 1883–1977