Constantine Delegiannes/Deligiannes

Life

Born

1842

Consecrated bishop

26 July 1887

Made metropolitan

26 July 1887

Retired

July 1909

Died

4 May 1919

Sees

1. 26 July 1887 – July 1909

   Metropolitan of Chios

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. July 1909 – 4 May 1919

   Former Metropolitan of Chios

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 26 July 1887 by:

• Constantine V Valiades Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1833–1914
• Gabriel Katsaros Metropolitan of Samos and Ikaria, 1814–1900
• Gervasios Soumelides Metropolitan of Chaldea and Cheroianon, 1820–1906
• Clement Folan Metropolitan of Grevena, d. 1896
• Dorotheos Metropolitan of Koloneia, 1825–1894

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

1. Constantine Delegiannes/Deligiannes Metropolitan of Chios consecrated 26 July 1887
2. Gervasios Soumelides Metropolitan of Chaldea and Cheroianon, 1820–1906 consecrated 9 August 1864
3. Dionysios Kotakes Metropolitan of Nicomedia, 1790–1877 consecrated October 1821

Bishops he consecrated 12

• 4 October 1887Stephen Soulides Metropolitan of Methymna, 1847–1915
• 11 March 1901Joachim Phoropoulos Metropolitan of Pelagonia, 1859–1909
• 15 July 1901Michael Kleovoulos Metropolitan of Sardis, 1850–1918
• 19 May 1902Photios Kalpides Metropolitan of Korçë, 1865–1906
• 22 May 1905Laurence Papadopoulos Metropolitan of Drama, 1868–1928
• 9 October 1905Gennadios Alexiades Metropolitan of Thessaloniki, 1868–1951
• 10 September 1906Emilianos Daggoulas/Dragoules Metropolitan of Eleutheroupolis, 1866–1927
• 8 October 1906Hierotheos Anthoulides Metropolitan of Sisanion and Siatista, 1877–1920
• 25 February 1907Nikodemos Neokles/Papageorgiou Metropolitan of Lititsa, d. 1930
• 15 August 1907Damaskinos Moschopoulos Metropolitan of Nevrokop, 1863–1928
• 31 August 1908Kallinikos Georgiades Metropolitan of Kallioupolis and Madytos, 1865–1912
• 17 May 1909Athanasios Piperas Metropolitan of Serrai, d. 1909