Nicholas VI Varelopoulos

Life

Born

February 1915

Ordained deacon

1938

Ordained priest

1940

Made archimandrite

1945

Consecrated bishop

25 January 1959

Made metropolitan

25 January 1959

Became patriarch

10 May 1968

Died

9 July 1986

Sees

1. 25 January 1959 – 10 May 1968

   Metropolitan of Hermopolis

   Patriarchate of Alexandria

2. 10 May 1968 – 9 July 1986

   Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa

   Patriarchate of Alexandria

Consecration

Consecrated 25 January 1959 by:

• Evangelos Psemmas Metropolitan of Hermopolis, 1905–1962
• Cyprian Papadopoulos Metropolitan of Central Africa, 1916–1973
• Hilarion Koiverakes Metropolitan of Memphis, 1897–1972

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 7 generations back to Paisios; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Nicholas VI Varelopoulos Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa consecrated 25 January 1959
2. Hilarion Koiverakes Metropolitan of Memphis, 1897–1972 consecrated 6 December 1940
3. Constantine Katsarakes Metropolitan of Leontopolis, 1887–1980 consecrated 20 December 1931
4. Isidore Georgiades Metropolitan of Johannesburg, 1881–1938 consecrated 1 April 1928
5. Keladion Kantopoulos Metropolitan of Ptolemais, 1873–1944 consecrated 15 August 1914
6. Basil III Georgiades Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1840–1929 consecrated 24 September 1889
7. Paisios Kourentis/Panagiotides Metropolitan of Imbros, 1830–1904 consecrated 22 December 1863
8. Paisios Metropolitan of Ephesus, 1778–1877 consecrated ca. 1819

Bishops he consecrated 2

• 29 November 1968Methodios Fouyas Metropolitan of Pisidia, 1925–2006
• 1 December 1968Cyril Papadopoulos Metropolitan of Zimbabwe, 1916–1986

Sources

Also in: Wikidata