Germanos Strenopoulos

Life

Born

1872

Ordained deacon

1897

Ordained priest

2 July 1906

Made archimandrite

2 July 1906

Consecrated bishop

1 July 1912

Died

23 January 1951

Sees

1. 1 July 1912 – 24 March 1922

   Metropolitan of Seleucia

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 24 March 1922 – 23 January 1951

   Metropolitan of Thyateira and Great Britain

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 1 July 1912 by:

• Joachim III Devetzes/Demetriades Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1834–1912
• Anthimos Sarides Metropolitan of Maroneia and Thasos, 1870–1938
• Nicholas Sakkopoulos Metropolitan of Chalcedon, 1862–1927
• Hierotheos Anthoulides Metropolitan of Sisanion and Siatista, 1877–1920
• Parthenios Golias Metropolitan of Melenikos, 1860–1921
• Theokletos Eleutheriou Metropolitan of Krinis, 1838–1918

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. Germanos Strenopoulos Metropolitan of Thyateira and Great Britain consecrated 1 July 1912
2. Hierotheos Anthoulides Metropolitan of Sisanion and Siatista, 1877–1920 consecrated 8 October 1906
3. Stephen Soulides Metropolitan of Methymna, 1847–1915 consecrated 4 October 1887
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

• 10 October 1912Raphael Nimer Metropolitan of Aleppo, d. 1949
• 28 June 1923Joachim Alexopoulos Metropolitan of Demetrias and Almyros, 1873–1959
• 29 March 1936Augustine Peterson Metropolitan of Riga and All Latvia, 1873–1955

Sources

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