Damaskinos Chatzopoulos

Life

Born

1913

Monastic tonsure

1936

Ordained deacon

1937

Ordained priest

1938

Made archimandrite

1938

Consecrated bishop

24 September 1950

Made metropolitan

24 September 1950

Retired

2 December 1968

Died

8 June 1977

Sees

1. 24 September 1950 – 7 November 1957

   Metropolitan of Triphylia and Olympia

   Church of Greece

2. 7 November 1957 – 2 December 1968

   Metropolitan of Demetrias and Almyros

   Church of Greece

3. 2 December 1968 – 8 June 1977

   Former Metropolitan of Demetrias and Almyros

   Church of Greece

Consecration

Consecrated 24 September 1950 by:

• Spyridon Vlachos Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1873–1956
• Panteleimon Phostinis Metropolitan of Chios, Psara and Oinoussa, 1888–1962
• Panteleimon Papageorgiou Metropolitan of Thessaloniki, 1902–1979
• Chrysostom Daskalakes Metropolitan of Messenia, 1906–1961
• Ambrose Antonopoulos Metropolitan of Paronaxia, 1882–1959
• Prokopios Tzavaras Metropolitan of Corinth, 1888–1964
• Cyril Karbaliotes Metropolitan of Thessaliotis and Phanariopharsala, 1904–1968
• Chrysostom Tavladorakes Metropolitan of Peiraeus, 1909–1977

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 4 generations back to Paisios; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Damaskinos Chatzopoulos Metropolitan of Demetrias and Almyros consecrated 24 September 1950
2. Spyridon Vlachos Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1873–1956 consecrated 16 July 1906
3. Stephen Soulides Metropolitan of Methymna, 1847–1915 consecrated 4 October 1887
4. Paisios Kourentis/Panagiotides Metropolitan of Imbros, 1830–1904 consecrated 22 December 1863
5. Paisios Metropolitan of Ephesus, 1778–1877 consecrated ca. 1819

Bishops he consecrated 2

• 31 January 1960Anatolios Georgiades Archbishop of Tiberias, 1909–1986
• 21 November 1965Paul Polymeropoulos Metropolitan of Chios, Psara and Oinoussa, 1922–1966