Apostolos Papaioannou

Life

Born

1915

Ordained deacon

8 March 1936

Ordained priest

11 April 1943

Consecrated bishop

6 August 1950

Died

28 November 1977

Sees

1. 6 August 1950 – 13 February 1975

   Metropolitan of Karpathos and Kasos

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 13 February 1975 – 28 November 1977

   Metropolitan of Ainos

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 6 August 1950 by:

• Polycarp Demetriades Metropolitan of Prousa, 1892–1953
• Leontios Liverios Metropolitan of Theodoroupolis, 1872–1964
• Philotheos Stavrides Metropolitan of Proikonnisos, 1882–1963
• Maximos Tsaouses Metropolitan of Sardis, 1914–1986
• Iakovos Stefanidis Metropolitan of Iconium, 1916–1965

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 9 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

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