Eustathios Eustathopoulos

Life

Born

21 November 1905

Ordained deacon

1943

Ordained priest

1945

Consecrated bishop

3 July 1955

Made metropolitan

3 July 1955

Died

2 March 1969

Sees

1. 3 July 1955 – 2 March 1969

   Metropolitan of Gortyna and Megalopolis

   Church of Greece

Consecration

Consecrated 3 July 1955 by:

• Theokletos II Panagiotopoulos Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1889–1962
• Iakovos III Vavanatsos Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1895–1984
• Methodios Kontostanos Metropolitan of Corfu, Paxoi and the Diapontian Islands, 1881–1972
• Christopher Alexandropoulos Metropolitan of Nafpaktos and Evrytania, 1898–1958
• Cyprian Poulakos Metropolitan of Monemvasia and Sparta, 1898–1975
• Dionysios Psarianos Metropolitan of Servia and Kozani, 1912–1997

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 11 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Eustathios Eustathopoulos Metropolitan of Gortyna and Megalopolis consecrated 3 July 1955
2. Dionysios Psarianos Metropolitan of Servia and Kozani, 1912–1997 consecrated 1952
3. Maximos Tsaouses Metropolitan of Sardis, 1914–1986 consecrated 16 June 1946
4. Polycarp Demetriades Metropolitan of Prousa, 1892–1953 consecrated 25 December 1927
5. Alexander Nemolovsky Metropolitan of Brussels and Belgium, 1876–1960 consecrated 28 November 1909
6. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
7. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
8. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
9. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
10. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
11. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
12. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735