Polycarp Demetriades

Life

Born

1892

Ordained deacon

1914

Ordained priest

1919

Consecrated bishop

25 December 1927

Made metropolitan

25 December 1927

Died

16 August 1953

Sees

1. 25 December 1927 – 28 January 1936

   Metropolitan of Myra

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 28 January 1936 – 16 August 1953

   Metropolitan of Prousa

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 25 December 1927 by:

• Basil III Georgiades Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1840–1929
• Kallinikos Delikanes Metropolitan of Caesarea, 1855–1934
• Nikodemos Komnenos/Andreou Metropolitan of Prousa, 1857–1935
• Eugene Papathomas Metropolitan of Silybria, 1855–1934
• Cyril Ioannou/Chatzepapademetriou Metropolitan of Rodopolis, 1872–1944
• Gennadios Arampatzoglou Metropolitan of Heliopolis and Theira, 1883–1956
• Iakovos Papapaisiou Metropolitan of Derka, 1885–1980
• Alexander Nemolovsky Metropolitan of Brussels and Belgium, 1876–1960

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 8 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Polycarp Demetriades Metropolitan of Prousa consecrated 25 December 1927
2. Alexander Nemolovsky Metropolitan of Brussels and Belgium, 1876–1960 consecrated 28 November 1909
3. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
4. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
5. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
6. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
7. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
8. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
9. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 4

• 7 May 1944Chrysostom Koronaios Metropolitan of Neocaesarea, 1894–1976
• 9 June 1946Maximos Georgiades Metropolitan of Laodicea, 1908–1979
• 16 June 1946Maximos Tsaouses Metropolitan of Sardis, 1914–1986
• 6 August 1950Apostolos Papaioannou Metropolitan of Ainos, 1915–1977

Sources

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