Gregory III Papoutsopoulos

Life

Born

1933

Ordained deacon

11 October 1964

Ordained priest

13 December 1964

Consecrated bishop

21 November 1985

Made metropolitan

21 November 1985

Died

30 January 1996

Sees

1. 21 November 1985 – 30 January 1996

   Metropolitan of Kastoria

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 21 November 1985 by:

• Serapheim Tikas Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1913–1998
• Dorotheos Stekas Metropolitan of Syros, Tinos, Andros, Kea and Milos, 1913–2001
• Sotirios Kitsos Metropolitan of Gytheion and Oitylos, 1920–1996
• Hierotheos Tsantiles Metropolitan of Ydra, Spetsai and Aigina, 1920–2008
• Theophilos Kanavos Metropolitan of Gortyna and Megalopolis, 1921–2006
• Chrysostom Voultsos Metropolitan of Nea Smyrni, 1927–1986
• Anthony Kompos Metropolitan of Sisanion and Siatista, 1920–2005
• Agathonikos Philippotis Metropolitan of Mesogaia and Lavreotika, 1918–2015
• Anthimos Roussas Metropolitan of Thessaloniki, b. 1934
• Christodoulos Paraskevaides Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1939–2008
• Agathangelos Tampouratzakis Metropolitan of Nea Smyrni, 1929–2001
• Panteleimon Bardakos Metropolitan of Samos and Ikaria, 1920–1995
• Titos Papanakos Metropolitan of Paramythia, Filiates, Giromeri and Parga, b. 1931
• Kallinikos Karousos Metropolitan of Peiraeus, 1926–2020
• Sergios Sigalas Metropolitan of Grevena, 1934–2014
• Dionysios Bairaktaris Metropolitan of Chios, Psara and Oinoussa, 1927–2011
• Meletios Kalamaras Metropolitan of Nikopolis and Preveza, 1933–2012
• Eustathios Speliotes Metropolitan of Monemvasia and Sparta, b. 1940
• Nikodemos Anagnostou Metropolitan of Ierissos, Agion Oros and Ardamerion, 1931–2012
• Germanos Paraskevopoulos Metropolitan of Eleia and Oleni, 1932–2023
• Panteleimon Rizos Metropolitan of Thera, Amorgos and Nisoi, 1925–2007
• Spyridon Kalafatakis Metropolitan of Kefalonia, 1926–2015
• Anastasios Yannoulatos Archbishop of Tirana, Durrës and All Albania, b. 1929

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 12 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Gregory III Papoutsopoulos Metropolitan of Kastoria consecrated 21 November 1985
2. Anthimos Roussas Metropolitan of Thessaloniki, b. 1934 consecrated 14 July 1974
3. Gabriel Kalokairinos Metropolitan of Thera, Amorgos and Nisoi, 1910–1983 consecrated 17 November 1957
4. Maximos Tsaouses Metropolitan of Sardis, 1914–1986 consecrated 16 June 1946
5. Polycarp Demetriades Metropolitan of Prousa, 1892–1953 consecrated 25 December 1927
6. Alexander Nemolovsky Metropolitan of Brussels and Belgium, 1876–1960 consecrated 28 November 1909
7. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
8. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
9. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
10. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
11. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
12. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
13. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 1

• 24 November 1985Agathonikos Fatouros Former Metropolitan of Kitros and Katerini, b. 1937

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr