Hieronymos Constantinidis

Life

Born

1912

Ordained deacon

12 December 1937

Ordained priest

22 November 1942

Made archimandrite

26 October 1943

Consecrated bishop

28 January 1951

Made metropolitan

5 August 1954

Died

17 November 2005

Sees

1. 28 January 1951 – 5 August 1954

   Bishop of Tralles

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 5 August 1954 – 17 November 2005

   Metropolitan of Rodopolis

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 28 January 1951 by:

• Thomas Savvopoulos Senior Metropolitan of Chalcedon, 1889–1996
• Leontios Liverios Metropolitan of Theodoroupolis, 1872–1964
• Iakovos Stefanidis Metropolitan of Iconium, 1916–1965

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. Hieronymos Constantinidis Metropolitan of Rodopolis consecrated 28 January 1951
2. Iakovos Stefanidis Metropolitan of Iconium, 1916–1965 consecrated 7 July 1950
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

Bishops he consecrated 10

• 8 August 1954Iakovos Tzanavares/Papaioannou Metropolitan of Germany, 1920–1971
• 23 June 1963Andrew Pantoleontos Former Bishop of Claudiopolis, 1911–1978
• 9 August 1964Demetrios I Papadopoulos Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1914–1991
• 16 January 1972Constantine Charisiades Metropolitan of Nicaea, 1929–2021
• 24 September 1972Athanasios Papas Senior Metropolitan of Chalcedon, b. 1936
• 23 September 1973Joachim Nerantzoules Senior Metropolitan of Nicomedia, 1942–2023
• 25 December 1973Bartholomew I Archondonis Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, b. 1940
• 25 December 1987Iakovos Sophroniades Metropolitan of the Princes' Islands, 1947–2018
• 28 October 1990Meliton Karas Metropolitan of Philadelphia, b. 1951
• 4 November 1990Demetrios Kommatas Metropolitan of the Princes' Islands, b. 1952