Nathaniel Dikaios

Life

Born

15 July 1919

Monastic tonsure

1938

Ordained deacon

1939

Ordained priest

1944

Consecrated bishop

7 May 1956

Made metropolitan

1963

Died

14 August 1979

Sees

1. 7 May 1956 – 1963

   Bishop of Miletoupolis

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 1963 – 23 May 1967

   Metropolitan of Miletoupolis

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

3. 23 May 1967 – 14 August 1979

   Metropolitan of Kos

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 7 May 1956 by:

• Iakovos Papapaisiou Metropolitan of Derka, 1885–1980
• Meliton Hatzis Senior Metropolitan of Chalcedon, 1913–1989
• Timothy Matthaiakes Metropolitan of Nea Ionia and Philadelphia, 1914–1992

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. Nathaniel Dikaios Metropolitan of Kos consecrated 7 May 1956
2. Meliton Hatzis Senior Metropolitan of Chalcedon, 1913–1989 consecrated 30 November 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 1

• 28 January 1979Nikephoros Tziphopoulos Metropolitan of Chios, Psara and Oinoussa, 1930–1979