Elias Tsakogiannis

Life

Born

1917

Ordained deacon

1947

Ordained priest

1952

Consecrated bishop

20 June 1967

Made metropolitan

6 December 1968

Died

7 January 1990

Sees

1. 20 June 1967 – 6 December 1968

   Bishop of Peristerion

   Vicar of Athens · Church of Greece

2. 6 December 1968 – 13 July 1974

   Metropolitan of Demetrias and Almyros

   Church of Greece

3. 13 July 1974 – 7 January 1990

   Metropolitan of Tracheia

   Church of Greece

Consecration

Consecrated 20 June 1967 by:

• Hieronymos I Cotsonis Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1905–1988

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 8 generations back to Paisios; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Elias Tsakogiannis Metropolitan of Tracheia consecrated 20 June 1967
2. Hieronymos I Cotsonis Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1905–1988 consecrated 14 May 1967
3. Constantine Poulos Metropolitan of Didymoteixon and Orestias, 1912–1994 consecrated 13 November 1957
4. Iakovos III Vavanatsos Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1895–1984 consecrated 11 January 1935
5. Constantine Mengrelis/Mingrelis Metropolitan of Serrai and Nigrita, 1886–1963 consecrated 16 March 1914
6. Cyril Moumtzes Metropolitan of Philadelphia, 1867–1925 consecrated 18 May 1897
7. Basil III Georgiades Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1840–1929 consecrated 24 September 1889
8. Paisios Kourentis/Panagiotides Metropolitan of Imbros, 1830–1904 consecrated 22 December 1863
9. Paisios Metropolitan of Ephesus, 1778–1877 consecrated ca. 1819

Bishops he consecrated 2

• 17 September 1967Demetrios Trakatellis Archbishop of America, b. 1928
• 24 November 1968Serapheim Rores Metropolitan of Karystia and Skyros, b. 1929