Meletios II Metaxakis

Life

Born

21 September 1871

Ordained deacon

March 1892

Ordained priest

30 March 1903

Consecrated bishop

4 April 1910

Made metropolitan

4 April 1910

Became patriarch

25 November 1921

Died

28 July 1935

Sees

1. 4 April 1910 – 1918

   Metropolitan of Kition

   Church of Cyprus

2. 4 April 1910 – 1920

   Metropolitan of Athens

   Church of Greece

3. 1920 – 25 November 1921

   Former Metropolitan of Athens

   Church of Greece

4. 25 November 1921 – 1923

   Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

5. 1923 – 1926

   Former Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

6. 1926 – 28 July 1935

   Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa

   Patriarchate of Alexandria

Consecration

Consecrated 4 April 1910 by:

• Cyril III Papadopoulos Archbishop of New Justiniana and All Cyprus, 1845–1916
• Cyril II Vasileiou Archbishop of New Justiniana and All Cyprus, 1859–1933
• Iakovos Antzoulatos Metropolitan of Paphos, 1872–1929

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 1 generation back to Cyril III Papadopoulos; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Meletios II Metaxakis Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa consecrated 4 April 1910
2. Cyril III Papadopoulos Archbishop of New Justiniana and All Cyprus, 1845–1916 consecrated 3 May 1889

Bishops he consecrated 10

• 25 March 1917Nikodemos Mylonas Metropolitan of Kition, 1889–1937
• 6 March 1922Dionysios Menas Metropolitan of Methymna, 1879–1951
• 30 November 1922Neophytos Apostolides Metropolitan of Siderokastron, d. 1929
• 4 March 1923Savvatij Vrabec Archbishop of Prague and All Czechoslovakia, 1880–1959
• 8 July 1923Herman Aav Archbishop of Karelia and All Finland, 1878–1961
• 1 January 1928Nicholas Abdallah/Theodoulou Metropolitan of Axium, 1890–1967
• 1 April 1928Isidore Georgiades Metropolitan of Johannesburg, 1881–1938
• 8 November 1931Arsenios Kakogiannes Metropolitan of Hermopolis, 1881–1940
• 20 December 1931Constantine Katsarakes Metropolitan of Leontopolis, 1887–1980
• 1 July 1934Anthimos Rosmares Metropolitan of Ptolemais, 1897–1937

Sources

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