Stephen Soulides

Life

Born

10 May 1847

Ordained priest

2 October 1887

Consecrated bishop

4 October 1887

Made metropolitan

4 October 1887

Died

22 July 1915

Sees

1. 4 October 1887 – 1896

   Metropolitan of Philadelphia

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 1896 – 22 July 1915

   Metropolitan of Methymna

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 4 October 1887 by:

• Sophronios Chrestides Metropolitan of Ioannina, 1826–1910
• Prokopios Metropolitan of Veroia
• Constantine Delegiannes/Deligiannes Metropolitan of Chios, 1842–1919
• Joachim Kechagias Metropolitan of Lemnos and Agios Eustratios, 1816–1888
• Paisios Kourentis/Panagiotides Metropolitan of Imbros, 1830–1904
• Gervasios Soumelides Metropolitan of Chaldea and Cheroianon, 1820–1906
• Clement Folan Metropolitan of Grevena, d. 1896

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 2 generations back to Paisios; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Stephen Soulides Metropolitan of Methymna consecrated 4 October 1887
2. Paisios Kourentis/Panagiotides Metropolitan of Imbros, 1830–1904 consecrated 22 December 1863
3. Paisios Metropolitan of Ephesus, 1778–1877 consecrated ca. 1819

Bishops he consecrated 14

• 18 February 1896Constantine Mikroules Metropolitan of Sozoagathopolis, 1857–1939
• 25 February 1896Germanos Karavangelis Metropolitan of Amaseia, 1866–1935
• 17 September 1900Anthimos Toumpalides Metropolitan of Prespa and Ohrid, 1865–1915
• 21 January 1901Nićifor Perić Metropolitan of Raška and Prizren, 1862–1918
• 11 March 1901Joachim Phoropoulos Metropolitan of Pelagonia, 1859–1909
• 8 July 1901Apostolos Christodoulou Metropolitan of Serrai, 1856–1917
• 15 July 1901Michael Kleovoulos Metropolitan of Sardis, 1850–1918
• 9 October 1905Gennadios Alexiades Metropolitan of Thessaloniki, 1868–1951
• 16 July 1906Spyridon Vlachos Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1873–1956
• 10 September 1906Emilianos Daggoulas/Dragoules Metropolitan of Eleutheroupolis, 1866–1927
• 8 October 1906Hierotheos Anthoulides Metropolitan of Sisanion and Siatista, 1877–1920
• 6 November 1906Leontios Liverios Metropolitan of Theodoroupolis, 1872–1964
• 25 February 1907Nikodemos Neokles/Papageorgiou Metropolitan of Lititsa, d. 1930
• 19 August 1914Basil Komvopoulos Metropolitan of Drama, 1887–1941