Hierotheos Tsantiles

Life

Born

1920

Ordained deacon

1958

Ordained priest

1958

Consecrated bishop

26 June 1967

Made metropolitan

26 June 1967

Retired

14 December 2000

Died

15 July 2008

Sees

1. 26 June 1967 – 14 December 2000

   Metropolitan of Ydra, Spetsai and Aigina

   Church of Greece

2. 14 December 2000 – 15 July 2008

   Former Metropolitan of Ydra, Spetsai and Aigina

   Church of Greece

Consecration

Consecrated 26 June 1967 by:

• Constantine Plates Metropolitan of Patrai, 1900–1975
• Theokletos Avrantinis Metropolitan of Aitolia and Acarnania, 1920–2007
• Sotirios Kitsos Metropolitan of Gytheion and Oitylos, 1920–1996
• Kallinikos Poulos Metropolitan of Edessa, Pella and Almopia, 1918–1984
• Constantios Chrones Metropolitan of Damalon, 1906–1991

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 8 generations back to Paisios; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Hierotheos Tsantiles Metropolitan of Ydra, Spetsai and Aigina consecrated 26 June 1967
2. Kallinikos Poulos Metropolitan of Edessa, Pella and Almopia, 1918–1984 consecrated 25 June 1967
3. Constantine Poulos Metropolitan of Didymoteixon and Orestias, 1912–1994 consecrated 13 November 1957
4. Iakovos III Vavanatsos Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1895–1984 consecrated 11 January 1935
5. Constantine Mengrelis/Mingrelis Metropolitan of Serrai and Nigrita, 1886–1963 consecrated 16 March 1914
6. Cyril Moumtzes Metropolitan of Philadelphia, 1867–1925 consecrated 18 May 1897
7. Basil III Georgiades Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1840–1929 consecrated 24 September 1889
8. Paisios Kourentis/Panagiotides Metropolitan of Imbros, 1830–1904 consecrated 22 December 1863
9. Paisios Metropolitan of Ephesus, 1778–1877 consecrated ca. 1819

Bishops he consecrated 1

• 21 November 1985Gregory III Papoutsopoulos Metropolitan of Kastoria, 1933–1996