Kallinikos Delikanes

Life

Born

1855

Consecrated bishop

13 September 1909

Made metropolitan

13 September 1909

Died

11 January 1934

Sees

1. 13 September 1909 – 23 June 1911

   Metropolitan of Berat

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 23 June 1911 – 10 February 1922

   Metropolitan of Veroia and Naousa

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

3. 10 February 1922 – 26 July 1932

   Metropolitan of Cyzicus

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

4. 26 July 1932 – 11 January 1934

   Metropolitan of Caesarea

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 13 September 1909 by:

• Joachim III Devetzes/Demetriades Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1834–1912
• Philotheos Bryennios Metropolitan of Nicomedia, 1833–1917
• Hieronymos Gorgias/Giourgas Metropolitan of Nicaea, 1837–1910
• Sophronios Nestopoulos Metropolitan of Koloneia, 1854–1917
• Polycarp Varvakes/Vardakis Former Metropolitan of Chios, 1862–1945
• Sophronios Argyropoulos Metropolitan of Proikonnisos, d. 1911
• Panaretos Bishop of Heliopolis
• Anthimos Anastasiades Metropolitan of Xanthi, 1862–1922

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. Kallinikos Delikanes Metropolitan of Caesarea consecrated 13 September 1909
2. Polycarp Varvakes/Vardakis Former Metropolitan of Chios, 1862–1945 consecrated 6 June 1894
3. Dionysios Stavrides Metropolitan of Silybria, 1852–1913 consecrated 23 October 1888
4. Kallinikos Metropolitan of Moglen, 1820–1911 consecrated 2 April 1872
5. Paisios Kourentis/Panagiotides Metropolitan of Imbros, 1830–1904 consecrated 22 December 1863
6. Paisios Metropolitan of Ephesus, 1778–1877 consecrated ca. 1819

Bishops he consecrated 2

• 30 November 1922Neophytos Apostolides Metropolitan of Siderokastron, d. 1929
• 25 December 1927Polycarp Demetriades Metropolitan of Prousa, 1892–1953