Cyril Papadopoulos

Life

Born

1916

Consecrated bishop

1 December 1968

Died

8 July 1986

Sees

1. 1 December 1968 – 1981

   Metropolitan of Rhodesia

   Patriarchate of Alexandria

2. 1981 – 8 July 1986

   Metropolitan of Zimbabwe

   Patriarchate of Alexandria

Consecration

Consecrated 1 December 1968 by:

• Nicholas VI Varelopoulos Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, 1915–1986
• Synesios Laskarides Former Metropolitan of Nubia, 1909–1991
• Parthenios III Koinides Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, 1919–1996
• Eustathios Eustathiou Metropolitan of Pentapolis, 1910–1982
• Paul Menas Metropolitan of Hermopolis, 1935–1995

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. Cyril Papadopoulos Metropolitan of Zimbabwe consecrated 1 December 1968
2. Eustathios Eustathiou Metropolitan of Pentapolis, 1910–1982 consecrated 25 January 1959
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