Meliton Hatzis

Life

Born

1913

Consecrated bishop

30 November 1950

Made metropolitan

30 November 1950

Died

27 December 1989

Sees

1. 30 November 1950 – 1963

   Metropolitan of Imbros and Tenedos

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 1963 – 1966

   Metropolitan of Heliopolis and Theira

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

3. 1966 – 27 December 1989

   Senior Metropolitan of Chalcedon

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 30 November 1950 by:

• Athenagoras Spyrou Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1886–1972
• Thomas Savvopoulos Senior Metropolitan of Chalcedon, 1889–1996
• Iakovos Papapaisiou Metropolitan of Derka, 1885–1980
• Dorotheos Georgiades Metropolitan of the Princes' Islands, 1891–1974
• Gennadios Arampatzoglou Metropolitan of Heliopolis and Theira, 1883–1956
• Constantine Alatopoulos Metropolitan of Irinoupolis, 1892–1961
• Germanos Garophallides Metropolitan of Ainos, 1893–1962
• Cyril Axiotis Metropolitan of Chaldea, 1908–1991
• Maximos Tsaouses Metropolitan of Sardis, 1914–1986

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 10 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Meliton Hatzis Senior Metropolitan of Chalcedon consecrated 30 November 1950
2. Maximos Tsaouses Metropolitan of Sardis, 1914–1986 consecrated 16 June 1946
3. Polycarp Demetriades Metropolitan of Prousa, 1892–1953 consecrated 25 December 1927
4. Alexander Nemolovsky Metropolitan of Brussels and Belgium, 1876–1960 consecrated 28 November 1909
5. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
6. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
7. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
8. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
9. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
10. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
11. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 11

• 7 May 1956Nathaniel Dikaios Metropolitan of Kos, 1919–1979
• 1964Nicholas Koutroumbes Metropolitan of Aneon, 1903–1972
• 9 August 1964Demetrios I Papadopoulos Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1914–1991
• 16 January 1972Constantine Charisiades Metropolitan of Nicaea, 1929–2021
• 24 September 1972Athanasios Papas Senior Metropolitan of Chalcedon, b. 1936
• 23 September 1973Joachim Nerantzoules Senior Metropolitan of Nicomedia, 1942–2023
• 25 December 1973Bartholomew I Archondonis Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, b. 1940
• 23 February 1975George Orphanides Metropolitan of Karpathos and Kasos, 1918–1991
• 9 May 1976Gleb Smirnov Archbishop of Oryol and Bryansk, 1913–1987
• 22 May 1977Theokletos Rokas Metropolitan of Metrai and Athyra, 1939–2004
• 22 April 1978Chrysostom Anagnostopoulos Bishop of Rodostolon, b. 1933

Sources

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