Emilianos Zacharopoulos

Life

Born

12 April 1915

Ordained deacon

1937

Ordained priest

1951

Consecrated bishop

12 June 1959

Made metropolitan

12 June 1959

Retired

23 February 2009

Died

8 September 2011

Sees

1. 12 June 1959 – 1969

   Metropolitan of Seleucia

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 1969 – 1982

   Metropolitan of Belgium

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

3. 1982 – 23 February 2009

   Metropolitan of Kos and Nisyros

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

4. 23 February 2009 – 8 September 2011

   Former Metropolitan of Kos and Nisyros

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 12 June 1959 by:

• Athenagoras Spyrou Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1886–1972
• Thomas Savvopoulos Senior Metropolitan of Chalcedon, 1889–1996
• Iakovos Papapaisiou Metropolitan of Derka, 1885–1980
• Leontios Liverios Metropolitan of Theodoroupolis, 1872–1964
• Constantine Alatopoulos Metropolitan of Irinoupolis, 1892–1961
• Philotheos Stavrides Metropolitan of Proikonnisos, 1882–1963
• Iakovos Tzanavares/Papaioannou Metropolitan of Germany, 1920–1971

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 12 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Emilianos Zacharopoulos Former Metropolitan of Kos and Nisyros consecrated 12 June 1959
2. Iakovos Tzanavares/Papaioannou Metropolitan of Germany, 1920–1971 consecrated 8 August 1954
3. Iakovos Stefanidis Metropolitan of Iconium, 1916–1965 consecrated 7 July 1950
4. Maximos Tsaouses Metropolitan of Sardis, 1914–1986 consecrated 16 June 1946
5. Polycarp Demetriades Metropolitan of Prousa, 1892–1953 consecrated 25 December 1927
6. Alexander Nemolovsky Metropolitan of Brussels and Belgium, 1876–1960 consecrated 28 November 1909
7. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
8. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
9. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
10. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
11. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
12. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
13. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 2

• 28 June 1959Emilianos Tsakopoulos Metropolitan of Miletus, 1915–1985
• 18 August 1974Panteleimon Kontogiannis Former Metropolitan of Belgium, 1935–2023

Sources

Also in: Wikidata