Germanos Garophallides

Life

Born

1893

Made archimandrite

1928

Ordained priest

6 August 1928

Consecrated bishop

25 March 1931

Made metropolitan

3 September 1936

Died

22 January 1962

Sees

1. 25 March 1931 – 3 September 1936

   Bishop of Abydos

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 3 September 1936 – 22 January 1962

   Metropolitan of Ainos

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 25 March 1931 by:

• Meletios Loukakes Metropolitan of Christoupolis, 1862–1946
• Dorotheos Georgiades Metropolitan of the Princes' Islands, 1891–1974
• Maximos V Vaportzes Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1897–1972

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 Paisios; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Germanos Garophallides Metropolitan of Ainos consecrated 25 March 1931
2. Meletios Loukakes Metropolitan of Christoupolis, 1862–1946 consecrated 25 April 1926
3. Leontios Liverios Metropolitan of Theodoroupolis, 1872–1964 consecrated 6 November 1906
4. Stephen Soulides Metropolitan of Methymna, 1847–1915 consecrated 4 October 1887
5. Paisios Kourentis/Panagiotides Metropolitan of Imbros, 1830–1904 consecrated 22 December 1863
6. Paisios Metropolitan of Ephesus, 1778–1877 consecrated ca. 1819

Bishops he consecrated 5

• 11 April 1937Evlogji Kurila Metropolitan of Korçë, 1880–1961
• 6 October 1946Gerasimos Kalokairnos Bishop of Pamphilos, d. 1972
• 7 July 1950Iakovos Stefanidis Metropolitan of Iconium, 1916–1965
• 30 November 1950Meliton Hatzis Senior Metropolitan of Chalcedon, 1913–1989
• 17 November 1957Gabriel Kalokairinos Metropolitan of Thera, Amorgos and Nisoi, 1910–1983

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr