Dionysios Menas

Life

Born

1879

Consecrated bishop

6 March 1922

Made metropolitan

6 March 1922

Died

12 September 1951

Sees

1. 6 March 1922 – 25 October 1922

   Metropolitan of Vryoula

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 25 October 1922 – 12 September 1951

   Metropolitan of Methymna

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 6 March 1922 by:

• Meletios II Metaxakis Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, 1871–1935
• Nicholas Sakkopoulos Metropolitan of Chalcedon, 1862–1927
• Germanos Karavangelis Metropolitan of Amaseia, 1866–1935
• Apostolos Tryphonos Metropolitan of Amaseia, 1878–1957
• Joachim Stroumpes Metropolitan of Chios, Psara and Oinoussa, 1880–1950
• Nikodemos Komnenos/Andreou Metropolitan of Prousa, 1857–1935
• Smaragd Chatzeeustathiou Former Metropolitan of Giannitsa and Goumenissa, 1871–1928
• Joachim Apostolides Metropolitan of Servia and Kozani, 1883–1962

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 4 generations back to Paisios; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Dionysios Menas Metropolitan of Methymna consecrated 6 March 1922
2. Germanos Karavangelis Metropolitan of Amaseia, 1866–1935 consecrated 25 February 1896
3. Stephen Soulides Metropolitan of Methymna, 1847–1915 consecrated 4 October 1887
4. Paisios Kourentis/Panagiotides Metropolitan of Imbros, 1830–1904 consecrated 22 December 1863
5. Paisios Metropolitan of Ephesus, 1778–1877 consecrated ca. 1819

Bishops he consecrated 1

• 20 September 1925Athenagoras Eleutheriou Metropolitan of Paramythia, Filiates and Giromeri, b. 1869