Basil Konstantinou

Life

Born

1885

Monastic tonsure

3 January 1910

Ordained deacon

30 January 1910

Ordained priest

30 July 1916

Made archimandrite

30 July 1916

Consecrated bishop

23 March 1941

Died

24 December 1952

Sees

1. 23 March 1941 – 24 December 1952

   Metropolitan of Maroneia and Thasos

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 23 March 1941 by:

• Chrysanthos Philippides Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1881–1949
• Kallinikos Lambrinides Metropolitan of Elassona, 1881–1957
• Gregory Pleiathos Metropolitan of Chalkis, 1890–1971

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. Basil Konstantinou Metropolitan of Maroneia and Thasos consecrated 23 March 1941
2. Chrysanthos Philippides Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1881–1949 consecrated 26 May 1913
3. Germanos Karavangelis Metropolitan of Amaseia, 1866–1935 consecrated 25 February 1896
4. Stephen Soulides Metropolitan of Methymna, 1847–1915 consecrated 4 October 1887
5. Paisios Kourentis/Panagiotides Metropolitan of Imbros, 1830–1904 consecrated 22 December 1863
6. Paisios Metropolitan of Ephesus, 1778–1877 consecrated ca. 1819