Dionysios Psarianos

Life

Born

31 March 1912

Ordained deacon

1934

Ordained priest

1934

Made archimandrite

1934

Consecrated bishop

1952

Made metropolitan

1957

Died

7 December 1997

Sees

1. 1952 – 1957

   Bishop of Rogoi

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 1957 – 1997

   Metropolitan of Servia and Kozani

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

3. 1997 – 7 December 1997

   Former Metropolitan of Servia and Kozani

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 1952 by:

• Spyridon Vlachos Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1873–1956
• Prokopios Karamanos Metropolitan of Ydra, Spetsai and Aigina, 1874–1965
• Dorotheos III Kottaras Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1888–1957
• Prokopios Tzavaras Metropolitan of Corinth, 1888–1964
• Chrysostom Daskalakes Metropolitan of Messenia, 1906–1961
• Maximos Tsaouses Metropolitan of Sardis, 1914–1986
• Alexios Ingleses Metropolitan of Zakynthos, 1911–1966

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 10 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Dionysios Psarianos Metropolitan of Servia and Kozani consecrated 1952
2. Maximos Tsaouses Metropolitan of Sardis, 1914–1986 consecrated 16 June 1946
3. Polycarp Demetriades Metropolitan of Prousa, 1892–1953 consecrated 25 December 1927
4. Alexander Nemolovsky Metropolitan of Brussels and Belgium, 1876–1960 consecrated 28 November 1909
5. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
6. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
7. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
8. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
9. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
10. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
11. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 5

• 3 July 1955Eustathios Eustathopoulos Metropolitan of Gortyna and Megalopolis, 1905–1969
• 4 March 1956Iakovos Makrygiannes Metropolitan of Elassona, 1910–1971
• 21 November 1957Chrysostom Themelis Metropolitan of Messenia, 1918–2007
• 24 November 1957Chrysostom Venetopoulos Metropolitan of Fokis, 1913–1986
• 28 January 1979Nicholas Drosos Metropolitan of Karpenision, 1929–2019