Demetrios I Papadopoulos

Life

Born

8 September 1914

Ordained deacon

25 April 1937

Ordained priest

29 March 1942

Consecrated bishop

9 August 1964

Made metropolitan

15 February 1972

Became patriarch

16 July 1972

Died

2 October 1991

Sees

1. 9 August 1964 – 15 February 1972

   Bishop of Elaia

   Vicar of Constantinople · Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 15 February 1972 – 16 July 1972

   Metropolitan of Imbros and Tenedos

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

3. 16 July 1972 – 2 October 1991

   Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 9 August 1964 by:

• Meliton Hatzis Senior Metropolitan of Chalcedon, 1913–1989
• Hieronymos Constantinidis Metropolitan of Rodopolis, 1912–2005
• Emilianos Tsakopoulos Metropolitan of Miletus, 1915–1985
• Athenagoras Spyrou Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1886–1972

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. Demetrios I Papadopoulos Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch consecrated 9 August 1964
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 7

• 25 December 1973Bartholomew I Archondonis Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, b. 1940
• 16 July 1978Basil Fedak Metropolitan of Winnipeg and Canada, 1909–2005
• 27 November 1983John Stinka Archbishop of Winnipeg and Metropolitan of Canada, 1935–2022
• 12 January 1986Michael Staikos Metropolitan of Austria, 1946–2011
• 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

Sources

• wikidata.org

Also in: Wikidata