Meletios Chrestides

Life

Born

1880

Ordained deacon

3 August 1903

Ordained priest

20 November 1904

Consecrated bishop

19 December 1910

Made metropolitan

January 1961

Died

20 July 1967

Sees

1. 19 December 1910 – January 1961

   Bishop of Patara

   Church of Greece

2. January 1961 – 20 July 1967

   Metropolitan of Patara

   Church of Greece

Consecration

Consecrated 19 December 1910 by:

• Constantine Vallioules/Apostolou/Konstantinides Metropolitan of Pisidia, 1862–1912
• Dorotheos Chrestides Metropolitan of Koloneia, 1841–1924
• Sophronios Argyropoulos Metropolitan of Proikonnisos, d. 1911

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 5 generations back to Paisios; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Meletios Chrestides Metropolitan of Patara consecrated 19 December 1910
2. Constantine Vallioules/Apostolou/Konstantinides Metropolitan of Pisidia, 1862–1912 consecrated 20 July 1895
3. Dionysios Stavrides Metropolitan of Silybria, 1852–1913 consecrated 23 October 1888
4. Kallinikos Metropolitan of Moglen, 1820–1911 consecrated 2 April 1872
5. Paisios Kourentis/Panagiotides Metropolitan of Imbros, 1830–1904 consecrated 22 December 1863
6. Paisios Metropolitan of Ephesus, 1778–1877 consecrated ca. 1819

Bishops he consecrated 2

• 13 October 1913Timothy Vyzantios Bishop of Gangra, d. 1918
• 13 January 1923Constantine Papadopoulos Bishop of Amphipolis, 1854–1933