Demetrios Trakatellis

Life

Born

1 February 1928

Ordained deacon

6 November 1960

Ordained priest

1964

Consecrated bishop

17 September 1967

Made metropolitan

20 August 1991

Made archbishop

1999

Retired

4 May 2019

Sees

1. 1967 – 20 August 1991

   Bishop of Vresthena

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 20 August 1991 – 1999

   Metropolitan of Vresthena

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

3. 1999 – 4 May 2019

   Archbishop of America

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

4. 4 May 2019 – present

   Former Archbishop of America

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 17 September 1967 by:

• Hieronymos I Cotsonis Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1905–1988
• 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
• Constantine Poulos Metropolitan of Didymoteixon and Orestias, 1912–1994
• Elias Tsakogiannis Metropolitan of Tracheia, 1917–1990

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. Demetrios Trakatellis Archbishop of America consecrated 17 September 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

• 1972Anastasios Yannoulatos Archbishop of Tirana, Durrës and All Albania, b. 1929
• 2 February 2002Savvas Zembillas Metropolitan of Pittsburgh, b. 1957
• 10 May 2003Evangelos Kourounis Metropolitan of Sardis, b. 1961
• 28 September 2012Gregory Tatsis Metropolitan of Nyssa, b. 1958
• 21 May 2014Cleopas Strongylis Metropolitan of Sweden and All Scandinavia, b. 1966
• 17 March 2018Nathaniel Symeonides Metropolitan of Chicago, b. 1978

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr

Also in: Wikidata