Germanos Goumas

Life

Born

1899

Ordained deacon

1923

Ordained priest

1923

Consecrated bishop

22 March 1936

Retired

1968

Died

14 February 1982

Sees

1. 22 March 1936 – 1945

   Metropolitan of Nafpaktos

   Church of Greece

2. 1945 – 1968

   Metropolitan of Eleia

   Church of Greece

3. 1968 – 14 February 1982

   Former Metropolitan of Eleia

   Church of Greece

Consecration

Consecrated 22 March 1936 by:

• Damaskinos Papandreou Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1891–1949
• Gregory Pleiathos Metropolitan of Chalkis, 1890–1971
• Panteleimon Phostinis Metropolitan of Chios, Psara and Oinoussa, 1888–1962
• Iakovos III Vavanatsos Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1895–1984

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 6 generations back to Paisios; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Germanos Goumas Metropolitan of Eleia consecrated 22 March 1936
2. Panteleimon Phostinis Metropolitan of Chios, Psara and Oinoussa, 1888–1962 consecrated 24 December 1922
3. Ambrose Nikolaides Metropolitan of Phthiotis, 1880–1958 consecrated 5 June 1911
4. Apostolos Christodoulou Metropolitan of Serrai, 1856–1917 consecrated 8 July 1901
5. Stephen Soulides Metropolitan of Methymna, 1847–1915 consecrated 4 October 1887
6. Paisios Kourentis/Panagiotides Metropolitan of Imbros, 1830–1904 consecrated 22 December 1863
7. Paisios Metropolitan of Ephesus, 1778–1877 consecrated ca. 1819

Bishops he consecrated 1

• 28 March 1954Anthony Klaoudatos Metropolitan of Xanthi and Peritheorion, 1912–1994