Christopher III Tsitskishvili

Life

Born

27 March 1873

Consecrated bishop

1921

Made metropolitan

1925

Became patriarch

4 June 1927

Died

10 January 1932

Sees

1. 1921 – 1925

   Bishop of Urbnisi

   Patriarchate of Georgia

2. 1925 – 4 June 1927

   Metropolitan of Abkhazia

   Patriarchate of Georgia

3. 4 June 1927 – 10 January 1932

   Catholicos and Patriarch of All Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta and Tbilisi

   Patriarchate of Georgia

Consecration

Consecrated 1921 by:

• Ambrose Khelaya Catholicos and Patriarch of All Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta and Tbilisi, 1861–1927

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 1 generation back to Ambrose Khelaya; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Christopher III Tsitskishvili Catholicos and Patriarch of All Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta and Tbilisi consecrated 1921
2. Ambrose Khelaya Catholicos and Patriarch of All Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta and Tbilisi, 1861–1927 consecrated 15 October 1917

Bishops he consecrated 2

• 2 October 1927Ephrem II Sidamonidze Catholicos and Patriarch of All Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta and Tbilisi, 1896–1972
• Paul Djaparidze Bishop of Sukhumi and Abkhazia, 1888–1929

Sources

• wikidata.org

Also in: Wikidata