Gregory Pleiathos

Life

Born

1890

Monastic tonsure

23 August 1916

Ordained deacon

1 September 1916

Ordained priest

14 April 1919

Made archimandrite

21 April 1919

Consecrated bishop

21 December 1922

Made metropolitan

21 December 1922

Retired

29 September 1968

Died

23 July 1971

Sees

1. 21 December 1922 – 29 September 1968

   Metropolitan of Chalkis

   Church of Greece

2. 29 September 1968 – 23 July 1971

   Former Metropolitan of Chalkis

   Church of Greece

Consecration

Consecrated 21 December 1922 by:

• Athanasios Leventopoulos Metropolitan of Syros, Tinos, Andros and Kea, 1865–1929
• Germanos Mavrommates Metropolitan of Demetrias, 1872–1944
• Alexander Delanas Metropolitan of Veroia and Naousa, 1878–1958

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 Dionysios Kotakes; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Gregory Pleiathos Metropolitan of Chalkis consecrated 21 December 1922
2. Alexander Delanas Metropolitan of Veroia and Naousa, 1878–1958 consecrated 18 July 1910
3. Joachim Euthyvoules/Chiakes Metropolitan of Ephesus, 1855–1920 consecrated 5 January 1885
4. Constantios Stavrides Metropolitan of Vizya and Medeia, 1833–1899 consecrated 13 March 1869
5. Dionysios Kotakes Metropolitan of Nicomedia, 1790–1877 consecrated October 1821

Bishops he consecrated 4

• December 1922Athenagoras Spyrou Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1886–1972
• 24 December 1922Anthony PoLevkadas Metropolitan of Elaia, 1890–1963
• 22 March 1936Germanos Goumas Metropolitan of Eleia, 1899–1982
• 23 March 1941Basil Konstantinou Metropolitan of Maroneia and Thasos, 1885–1952