Ephrem II Sidamonidze

Life

Born

19 October 1896

Monastic tonsure

1922

Made archimandrite

22 October 1925

Consecrated bishop

2 October 1927

Made metropolitan

1946

Became patriarch

11 January 1960

Died

7 April 1972

Sees

1. 2 October 1927 – 1927

   Bishop of Manglisi

   Patriarchate of Georgia

2. 1927

   Bishop of Ninotsminda

   Patriarchate of Georgia

3. 1927 – 1932

   Bishop of Alaverdi

   Patriarchate of Georgia

4. 1932 – 1944

   Bishop of Urbnisi

   Patriarchate of Georgia

5. 1944 – 1946

   Bishop of Kutaisi and Gaenati

   Patriarchate of Georgia

6. 1946 – 1952

   Metropolitan of Kutaisi and Gaenati

   Patriarchate of Georgia

7. 1952 – 11 January 1960

   Metropolitan of Batumi and Mtskheta

   Patriarchate of Georgia

8. 11 January 1960 – 7 April 1972

   Catholicos and Patriarch of All Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta and Tbilisi

   Patriarchate of Georgia

Consecration

Consecrated 2 October 1927 by:

• Christopher III Tsitskishvili Catholicos and Patriarch of All Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta and Tbilisi, 1873–1932
• Varlaam Makharadze Metropolitan of Kutaisi and Gaenati, 1873–1943
• Stephen Karbelashvili Bishop of Alaverdi, 1853–1936

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 2 generations back to Ambrose Khelaya; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Ephrem II Sidamonidze Catholicos and Patriarch of All Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta and Tbilisi consecrated 2 October 1927
2. Christopher III Tsitskishvili Catholicos and Patriarch of All Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta and Tbilisi, 1873–1932 consecrated 1921
3. Ambrose Khelaya Catholicos and Patriarch of All Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta and Tbilisi, 1861–1927 consecrated 15 October 1917

Bishops he consecrated 3

• 2 December 1962Feodosii Protsyuk Metropolitan of Omsk and Tara, 1927–2016
• 26 August 1963Elias II Ghudushauri-Shiolashvili Catholicos and Patriarch of All Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta and Tbilisi, b. 1933
• 26 March 1972Gaios Keratishvili Metropolitan of Urbnisi, 1945–2016

Sources

Also in: Wikidata