Vissarion Bekiares

Life

Born

1884

Consecrated bishop

7 February 1943

Made archbishop

7 February 1943

Died

9 November 1974

Sees

1. 7 February 1943 – 9 November 1974

   Archbishop of Thabor

   Patriarchate of Jerusalem

Consecration

Consecrated 7 February 1943 by:

• Timothy I Themeles Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem and All Palestine, 1878–1955
• Panteleimon Athanasiades Archbishop of Neapolis, 1870–1948
• Basil Lemonides Archbishop of Ashkelon, 1868–1945

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 2 generations back to Damian Kasiotes; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Vissarion Bekiares Archbishop of Thabor consecrated 7 February 1943
2. Timothy I Themeles Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem and All Palestine, 1878–1955 consecrated 27 August 1921
3. Damian Kasiotes Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem and All Palestine, 1848–1931 consecrated 28 February 1893

Bishops he consecrated 4

• 12 February 1943Irinarchos Leontides Archbishop of Diocaesarea, 1876–1958
• 13 August 1944Epiphanios Papavasileiou Archbishop of Philadelphia, 1885–1972
• 17 December 1944Athenagoras Vasileiades Archbishop of Sebastea, 1894–1966
• 26 August 1962Basil Blatsos Metropolitan of Caesarea, 1923–2012