Apostolos Tryphonos

Life

Born

26 November 1878

Ordained deacon

6 August 1901

Ordained priest

12 May 1909

Consecrated bishop

16 June 1913

Made metropolitan

16 June 1913

Died

29 November 1957

Sees

1. 16 June 1913 – 5 February 1924

   Metropolitan of Rhodes

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 5 February 1924 – 30 April 1924

   Metropolitan of Veroia and Naousa

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

3. 30 April 1924 – 4 June 1946

   Metropolitan of Rhodes

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

4. 4 June 1946 – 25 October 1951

   Former Metropolitan of Rhodes

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

5. 25 October 1951 – 29 November 1957

   Metropolitan of Amaseia

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 16 June 1913 by:

• Germanos V Kavakopoulos Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1835–1920
• Gervasios Horologas Metropolitan of Ioannina, 1856–1916
• Cyril Moumtzes Metropolitan of Philadelphia, 1867–1925
• Anthimos Sarides Metropolitan of Maroneia and Thasos, 1870–1938
• Nicholas Sakkopoulos Metropolitan of Chalcedon, 1862–1927
• Serapheim Skaroules Metropolitan of Ganos and Chora, 1852–1913
• Hierotheos Anthoulides Metropolitan of Sisanion and Siatista, 1877–1920
• Laurence Papadopoulos Metropolitan of Drama, 1868–1928
• Germanos Sakellarides Metropolitan of Eleutheroupolis, 1875–1917

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. Apostolos Tryphonos Metropolitan of Amaseia consecrated 16 June 1913
2. Cyril Moumtzes Metropolitan of Philadelphia, 1867–1925 consecrated 18 May 1897
3. Basil III Georgiades Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1840–1929 consecrated 24 September 1889
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 2

• 6 March 1922Dionysios Menas Metropolitan of Methymna, 1879–1951
• 4 March 1923Savvatij Vrabec Archbishop of Prague and All Czechoslovakia, 1880–1959

Sources

Also in: Wikidata