Hieronymos I Cotsonis

Life

Born

1 May 1905

Ordained deacon

4 January 1939

Ordained priest

23 June 1940

Made archimandrite

23 June 1940

Consecrated bishop

14 May 1967

Made archbishop

14 May 1967

Retired

19 December 1973

Died

15 November 1988

Sees

1. 14 May 1967 – 19 December 1973

   Archbishop of Athens and All Greece

   Church of Greece

2. 19 December 1973 – 15 November 1988

   Former Archbishop of Athens and All Greece

   Church of Greece

Consecration

Consecrated 14 May 1967 by:

• Constantine Plates Metropolitan of Patrai, 1900–1975
• Dionysios Charalampous Metropolitan of Trikki and Stagoi, 1905–1970
• Damaskinos Kotzias Metropolitan of Nafpaktos and Agios Vlasios, b. 1905
• Stylianos Kornaros Former Metropolitan of Nikopolis and Preveza, 1912–1999
• Anthony Klaoudatos Metropolitan of Xanthi and Peritheorion, 1912–1994
• Meletios Galanopoulos Metropolitan of Kythira, 1892–1972
• Constantine Poulos Metropolitan of Didymoteixon and Orestias, 1912–1994
• Synesios Visvines Metropolitan of Kassandreia, 1912–2000

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 7 generations back to Paisios; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Hieronymos I Cotsonis Archbishop of Athens and All Greece consecrated 14 May 1967
2. Constantine Poulos Metropolitan of Didymoteixon and Orestias, 1912–1994 consecrated 13 November 1957
3. Iakovos III Vavanatsos Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1895–1984 consecrated 11 January 1935
4. Constantine Mengrelis/Mingrelis Metropolitan of Serrai and Nigrita, 1886–1963 consecrated 16 March 1914
5. Cyril Moumtzes Metropolitan of Philadelphia, 1867–1925 consecrated 18 May 1897
6. Basil III Georgiades Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1840–1929 consecrated 24 September 1889
7. Paisios Kourentis/Panagiotides Metropolitan of Imbros, 1830–1904 consecrated 22 December 1863
8. Paisios Metropolitan of Ephesus, 1778–1877 consecrated ca. 1819

Bishops he consecrated 6

• 7 June 1967John Papalis Metropolitan of Siderokastron, 1914–2001
• 8 June 1967Nikodemos Graikos Metropolitan of Thebes and Levadeia, 1908–1996
• 20 June 1967Elias Tsakogiannis Metropolitan of Tracheia, 1917–1990
• 17 September 1967Demetrios Trakatellis Archbishop of America, b. 1928
• 4 December 1967Sebastian Aspiotes Metropolitan of Elassona, 1913–1999
• 1972Anastasios Yannoulatos Archbishop of Tirana, Durrës and All Albania, b. 1929

Sources

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