Athenagoras Spyrou

Life

Born

6 April 1886

Monastic tonsure

1910

Ordained deacon

March 1910

Consecrated bishop

December 1922

Made metropolitan

December 1922

Made archbishop

1930

Became patriarch

1 November 1948

Died

7 July 1972

Sees

1. December 1922 – 12 August 1930

   Metropolitan of Corfu

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 12 August 1930 – 1 November 1948

   Archbishop of North and South America

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

3. 1 November 1948 – 7 July 1972

   Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated December 1922 by:

• Germanos Mavrommates Metropolitan of Demetrias, 1872–1944
• Athanasios Leventopoulos Metropolitan of Syros, Tinos, Andros and Kea, 1865–1929
• Damaskinos Papandreou Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1891–1949
• Dorotheos III Kottaras Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1888–1957
• Gregory Pleiathos Metropolitan of Chalkis, 1890–1971
• Hierotheos Bokolas Metropolitan of Argolis, 1885–1942

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 6 generations back to Paisios; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Athenagoras Spyrou Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch consecrated December 1922
2. Dorotheos III Kottaras Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1888–1957 consecrated 20 December 1922
3. Ambrose Nikolaides Metropolitan of Phthiotis, 1880–1958 consecrated 5 June 1911
4. Apostolos Christodoulou Metropolitan of Serrai, 1856–1917 consecrated 8 July 1901
5. Stephen Soulides Metropolitan of Methymna, 1847–1915 consecrated 4 October 1887
6. Paisios Kourentis/Panagiotides Metropolitan of Imbros, 1830–1904 consecrated 22 December 1863
7. Paisios Metropolitan of Ephesus, 1778–1877 consecrated ca. 1819

Bishops he consecrated 11

• 24 December 1922Panteleimon Phostinis Metropolitan of Chios, Psara and Oinoussa, 1888–1962
• 5 June 1938Athenagoras Cavadas Archbishop of Thyateira and Great Britain, 1885–1962
• 23 November 1941Eireneos Tsourounakes Bishop of San Francisco, 1890–1944
• 30 November 1941Germanos Polizoides Metropolitan of Hierapolis, 1898–1993
• 7 July 1950Iakovos Stefanidis Metropolitan of Iconium, 1916–1965
• 30 November 1950Meliton Hatzis Senior Metropolitan of Chalcedon, 1913–1989
• 8 August 1954Iakovos Tzanavares/Papaioannou Metropolitan of Germany, 1920–1971
• 6 February 1955Iakovos Coucouzes Former Archbishop of North and South America, 1911–2005
• 12 June 1959Emilianos Zacharopoulos Former Metropolitan of Kos and Nisyros, 1915–2011
• 9 August 1964Demetrios I Papadopoulos Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1914–1991
• 6 December 1970Damaskinos Papandreou Metropolitan of Adrianopolis, 1936–2011

Sources

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