Athenagoras Cavadas

Life

Born

1885

Ordained deacon

1909

Ordained priest

1910

Consecrated bishop

5 June 1938

Made metropolitan

7 June 1949

Made archbishop

12 April 1951

Died

15 October 1962

Sees

1. 5 June 1938 – 7 June 1949

   Bishop of Boston

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 7 June 1949 – 12 April 1951

   Metropolitan of Philadelphia

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

3. 12 April 1951 – 15 October 1962

   Archbishop of Thyateira and Great Britain

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 5 June 1938 by:

• Athenagoras Spyrou Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1886–1972
• Kallistos Papageorgopoulos Bishop of San Francisco, 1878–1940
• Bogdan Shpylka Metropolitan of Evkarpia, 1892–1965

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 Cavadas Archbishop of Thyateira and Great Britain consecrated 5 June 1938
2. Kallistos Papageorgopoulos Bishop of San Francisco, 1878–1940 consecrated 7 August 1927
3. Alexander Demoglou Metropolitan of Corfu and Paxoi, 1876–1942 consecrated 27 October 1907
4. Nikodemos Neokles/Papageorgiou Metropolitan of Lititsa, d. 1930 consecrated 25 February 1907
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 7

• 30 November 1941Germanos Polizoides Metropolitan of Hierapolis, 1898–1993
• 28 June 1953Meletios Karabinis Metropolitan of France, 1914–1993
• 6 November 1955Chrysostom Tsiter Metropolitan of Austria, 1903–1995
• 13 May 1956Iakovos Virvos Metropolitan of Christoupolis, 1901–1976
• 14 October 1956Jüri Välbe Bishop of Ravenna, 1881–1961
• 6 December 1959Dionysios Psiachas Metropolitan of Prousa, 1916–2008
• 25 September 1960Emilianos Timiadis Metropolitan of Silybria, 1916–2008