Demetrios Bourlakes

Life

Consecrated bishop

19 August 1956

Made metropolitan

25 September 1962

Died

10 July 1990

Sees

1. 19 August 1956 – 25 September 1962

   Bishop of Petras

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 25 September 1962 – 10 July 1990

   Metropolitan of Petras

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 19 August 1956 by:

• Eugene Psalidakes Archbishop of Crete, 1912–1978
• Agathangelos Xerouchakes Bishop of Kydonia and Apokoronos, 1872–1958
• Athanasios Apostolakes Metropolitan of Rethymno and Avlopotamos, 1892–1981
• Philotheos Mazokopakes Metropolitan of Ierapytna and Sitia, 1892–1960

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 Sophronios IV Meidantzoglou; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Demetrios Bourlakes Metropolitan of Petras consecrated 19 August 1956
2. Athanasios Apostolakes Metropolitan of Rethymno and Avlopotamos, 1892–1981 consecrated 16 February 1936
3. Timothy Veneres Metropolitan of Crete, 1876–1941 consecrated 28 March 1916
4. Eumenios Xyroudakes Metropolitan of Crete, 1845–1920 consecrated 28 December 1886
5. Joachim III Devetzes/Demetriades Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1834–1912 consecrated 11 December 1864
6. Sophronios IV Meidantzoglou Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, 1798–1899 consecrated 29 June 1839

Bishops he consecrated 2

• 8 December 1957Eireneos Galanakes Metropolitan of Kissamos and Selino, 1911–2013
• 29 March 1959Nikephoros Sytzanakes Metropolitan of Kydonia and Apokoronos, 1894–1975