Thomas Savvopoulos

Life

Born

1889

Ordained deacon

September 1912

Ordained priest

19 February 1922

Consecrated bishop

11 March 1922

Died

18 October 1996

Sees

1. 11 March 1922 – 2 April 1927

   Metropolitan of Aneon

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 2 April 1927 – 12 March 1946

   Metropolitan of the Princes' Islands

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

3. 12 March 1946 – 18 October 1996

   Senior Metropolitan of Chalcedon

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 11 March 1922 by:

• Polycarp Psomiades Metropolitan of Xanthi, 1864–1939
• Gervasios Sarasites Metropolitan of Alexandroupolis, 1867–1934
• Constantine Mengrelis/Mingrelis Metropolitan of Serrai and Nigrita, 1886–1963

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. Thomas Savvopoulos Senior Metropolitan of Chalcedon consecrated 11 March 1922
2. Constantine Mengrelis/Mingrelis Metropolitan of Serrai and Nigrita, 1886–1963 consecrated 16 March 1914
3. Cyril Moumtzes Metropolitan of Philadelphia, 1867–1925 consecrated 18 May 1897
4. Basil III Georgiades Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1840–1929 consecrated 24 September 1889
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 17

• 16 March 1924Germanos Athanasiades Metropolitan of Sardis, 1885–1945
• 22 January 1925Constantine Alatopoulos Metropolitan of Irinoupolis, 1892–1961
• 4 April 1926Iakovos Papapaisiou Metropolitan of Derka, 1885–1980
• 11 April 1926Gennadios Zesiades Bishop of Chariopolis, 1879–1939
• 27 June 1926Joachim Pelekanos Senior Metropolitan of Derka, 1892–1950
• 29 March 1931Philotheos Stavrides Metropolitan of Proikonnisos, 1882–1963
• 29 March 1936Augustine Peterson Metropolitan of Riga and All Latvia, 1873–1955
• 11 April 1937Panteleimon Kotoko Metropolitan of Gjirokastër, 1890–1969
• 9 October 1943Adamantios Kasapides Metropolitan of Pergamon, 1909–1958
• 10 October 1943Cyril Axiotis Metropolitan of Chaldea, 1908–1991
• 7 May 1944Chrysostom Koronaios Metropolitan of Neocaesarea, 1894–1976
• 7 July 1950Iakovos Stefanidis Metropolitan of Iconium, 1916–1965
• 10 September 1950Mark Lipa Bishop of Levkada, 1919–1982
• 30 November 1950Meliton Hatzis Senior Metropolitan of Chalcedon, 1913–1989
• 28 January 1951Hieronymos Constantinidis Metropolitan of Rodopolis, 1912–2005
• 12 June 1959Emilianos Zacharopoulos Former Metropolitan of Kos and Nisyros, 1915–2011
• 23 June 1963Andrew Pantoleontos Former Bishop of Claudiopolis, 1911–1978