Constantine Charisiades

Life

Born

23 July 1929

Ordained deacon

17 December 1950

Ordained priest

22 August 1956

Made archimandrite

22 August 1956

Consecrated bishop

16 January 1972

Made metropolitan

25 March 1974

Died

8 April 2021

Sees

1. 16 January 1972 – 25 March 1974

   Bishop of Apollonia

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 25 March 1974 – 15 March 1977

   Metropolitan of the Princes' Islands

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

3. 15 March 1977 – 29 August 2011

   Metropolitan of Derka

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

4. 29 August 2011 – 8 April 2021

   Metropolitan of Nicaea

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 16 January 1972 by:

• Meliton Hatzis Senior Metropolitan of Chalcedon, 1913–1989
• Maximos Georgiades Metropolitan of Laodicea, 1908–1979
• Hieronymos Constantinidis Metropolitan of Rodopolis, 1912–2005
• Symeon Amaryllios Senior Metropolitan of Nicomedia, 1920–2003
• Gabriel Premetidis Metropolitan of Koloneia, d. 2003

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 10 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Constantine Charisiades Metropolitan of Nicaea consecrated 16 January 1972
2. Maximos Georgiades Metropolitan of Laodicea, 1908–1979 consecrated 9 June 1946
3. Polycarp Demetriades Metropolitan of Prousa, 1892–1953 consecrated 25 December 1927
4. Alexander Nemolovsky Metropolitan of Brussels and Belgium, 1876–1960 consecrated 28 November 1909
5. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
6. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
7. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
8. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
9. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
10. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
11. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 6

• 25 July 1987Stephen Charalambides Metropolitan of Tallinn and All Estonia, b. 1940
• 28 October 1990Meliton Karas Metropolitan of Philadelphia, b. 1951
• 4 November 1990Demetrios Kommatas Metropolitan of the Princes' Islands, b. 1952
• 15 September 1996Dionysios Sakates Metropolitan of Synada, d. 2021
• 10 September 2000Theoleptos Phenerles Metropolitan of Iconium, 1957–2026
• 24 March 2013Nektarios Selalmatzides Archbishop of Anthidona, b. 1962

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr

Also in: Wikidata