Dionysios Plaisas

Life

Born

14 September 1852

Monastic tonsure

November 1876

Ordained deacon

16 March 1884

Ordained priest

21 March 1884

Consecrated bishop

20 November 1894

Made archbishop

20 November 1894

Made metropolitan

1922

Died

15 December 1933

Sees

1. 20 November 1894 – 1922

   Archbishop of Zakynthos

   Church of Greece

2. 1922 – 15 December 1933

   Metropolitan of Zakynthos

   Church of Greece

Consecration

Consecrated 20 November 1894 by:

• Germanos I Kalligas Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1844–1896
• Panaretos Constantinides Archbishop of Messenia, 1836–1897
• Arsenios Goumpouros Bishop of Ydra and Spetsai, 1828–1906
• Neophytos Panagiotopoulos Metropolitan of Triphylia and Olympia, 1831–1903
• Gregory Giakoumes Bishop of Paronaxia, d. 1910

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 5 generations back to Anthimos III Chorianopoulos; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Dionysios Plaisas Metropolitan of Zakynthos consecrated 20 November 1894
2. Germanos I Kalligas Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1844–1896 consecrated 17 March 1884
3. Dositheos Asemakides Bishop of Thebes and Levadeia, 1807–1887 consecrated 23 November 1858
4. Dionysios Sasanas Archbishop of Monemvasia and Sparta, 1810–1876 consecrated 30 November 1852
5. Bartholomew Peirounis Bishop of Kalavryta and Aigialeia, d. 1865 consecrated 15 September 1818
6. Anthimos III Chorianopoulos Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1762–1842 consecrated 1797

Bishops he consecrated 1

• 9 July 1904Meletios Sakellaropoulos Metropolitan of Messenia, 1852–1933