Constantine Mengrelis/Mingrelis

Life

Born

1886

Ordained deacon

1907

Ordained priest

1909

Consecrated bishop

16 March 1914

Made metropolitan

13 October 1922

Retired

11 January 1961

Died

14 October 1963

Sees

1. 16 March 1914 – 13 October 1922

   Bishop of Levkada

   Vicar of Chalcedon · Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 13 October 1922 – 1924

   Metropolitan of Eleutheroupolis

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

3. 1924 – 11 January 1961

   Metropolitan of Serrai

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

4. 11 January 1961 – 14 October 1963

   Former Metropolitan of Serrai

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 16 March 1914 by:

• Gregory VII Zervoudakes/Papadostavrinos Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1850–1924
• Polycarp Psomiades Metropolitan of Xanthi, 1864–1939
• Cyril Moumtzes Metropolitan of Philadelphia, 1867–1925

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 4 generations back to Paisios; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Constantine Mengrelis/Mingrelis Metropolitan of Serrai and Nigrita consecrated 16 March 1914
2. Cyril Moumtzes Metropolitan of Philadelphia, 1867–1925 consecrated 18 May 1897
3. Basil III Georgiades Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1840–1929 consecrated 24 September 1889
4. Paisios Kourentis/Panagiotides Metropolitan of Imbros, 1830–1904 consecrated 22 December 1863
5. Paisios Metropolitan of Ephesus, 1778–1877 consecrated ca. 1819

Bishops he consecrated 3

• 11 March 1922Thomas Savvopoulos Senior Metropolitan of Chalcedon, 1889–1996
• 11 January 1935Iakovos III Vavanatsos Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1895–1984
• 10 September 1939Michael Konstantinides Archbishop of North and South America, 1892–1958

Sources

Also in: Wikidata