Germanos Paraskevopoulos

Life

Born

24 February 1932

Made archimandrite

1960

Monastic tonsure

8 November 1960

Ordained deacon

20 November 1960

Ordained priest

6 December 1960

Consecrated bishop

3 October 1981

Made metropolitan

3 October 1981

Retired

5 September 2022

Died

21 February 2023

Sees

1. 3 October 1981 – 5 September 2022

   Metropolitan of Eleia and Oleni

   Church of Greece

2. 5 September 2022 – 21 February 2023

   Former Metropolitan of Eleia and Oleni

   Church of Greece

Consecration

Consecrated 3 October 1981 by:

• Serapheim Tikas Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1913–1998
• Iakovos Kleomvrotos Metropolitan of Mytilini, Eressos and Plomarion, 1907–1987
• Barnabas Tzortzatos Metropolitan of Kitros and Katerini, 1918–1985
• Stephen Matakoulias Metropolitan of Triphylia and Olympia, 1915–2007
• Theophilos Kanavos Metropolitan of Gortyna and Megalopolis, 1921–2006
• Damaskinos Roumeliotes Metropolitan of Maroneia and Komotini, 1920–2012
• Prokopios Tsakoumakas Metropolitan of Filippoi, Neapolis and Thasos, 1939–2017
• Anthimos Roussas Metropolitan of Thessaloniki, b. 1934
• Christodoulos Paraskevaides Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1939–2008
• Cleopas Thomopoulos Metropolitan of Thessaliotis and Phanariopharsala, 1913–1999
• Agathangelos Tampouratzakis Metropolitan of Nea Smyrni, 1929–2001
• Panteleimon Bardakos Metropolitan of Samos and Ikaria, 1920–1995
• Serapheim Orphanos Metropolitan of Larisa and Tyrnavos, 1931–1989
• Kallinikos Karousos Metropolitan of Peiraeus, 1926–2020
• Ambrose Lenes Former Metropolitan of Kalavryta and Aigialeia, b. 1938
• Panteleimon Bezenitis Metropolitan of Attica, 1938–2014
• Iakovos Korozes Metropolitan of Kythira, 1927–2009
• Eustathios Speliotes Metropolitan of Monemvasia and Sparta, b. 1940
• Nikodemos Anagnostou Metropolitan of Ierissos, Agion Oros and Ardamerion, 1931–2012

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 12 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Germanos Paraskevopoulos Metropolitan of Eleia and Oleni consecrated 3 October 1981
2. Iakovos Korozes Metropolitan of Kythira, 1927–2009 consecrated 2 March 1980
3. Gabriel Kalokairinos Metropolitan of Thera, Amorgos and Nisoi, 1910–1983 consecrated 17 November 1957
4. Maximos Tsaouses Metropolitan of Sardis, 1914–1986 consecrated 16 June 1946
5. Polycarp Demetriades Metropolitan of Prousa, 1892–1953 consecrated 25 December 1927
6. Alexander Nemolovsky Metropolitan of Brussels and Belgium, 1876–1960 consecrated 28 November 1909
7. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
8. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
9. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
10. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
11. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
12. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
13. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 12

• 4 October 1981Hieronymos II Liapis Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, b. 1938
• 21 November 1985Gregory III Papoutsopoulos Metropolitan of Kastoria, 1933–1996
• 20 November 1988Iakovos Phrantzes Metropolitan of Mytilini, Eressos and Plomarion, b. 1942
• 5 October 1996Serapheim Papakostas Metropolitan of Kastoria, cons. 1996
• 22 January 2000Daniel Pourtsoukles Metropolitan of Kaisariani, Vyron and Ymittos, b. 1952
• 30 June 2008Kallinikos Demenopoulos Metropolitan of Paronaxia, b. 1959
• 25 October 2009Theoktistos Kloukinas Metropolitan of Phokida, b. 1950
• 1 November 2009Athanasios Bachos Bishop of Oleni, b. 1954
• 31 May 2015Gerasimos Phokas Metropolitan of Kefalonia, 1951–2015
• 10 October 2015Demetrios Argyros Metropolitan of Kefalonia, b. 1958
• 12 February 2018Constantios Panagiotakopoulos Bishop of Androusa, b. 1960
• 7 October 2018Hieronymos Nikopoulos Metropolitan of Larisa and Tyrnavos, b. 1971

Sources

Also in: Wikidata