Maximos Georgiades

Life

Born

1908

Consecrated bishop

9 June 1946

Made metropolitan

9 June 1946

Died

10 December 1979

Sees

1. 9 June 1946 – 10 December 1979

   Metropolitan of Laodicea

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 9 June 1946 by:

• Maximos V Vaportzes Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1897–1972
• Leontios Liverios Metropolitan of Theodoroupolis, 1872–1964
• Gennadios Arampatzoglou Metropolitan of Heliopolis and Theira, 1883–1956
• Meletios Loukakes Metropolitan of Christoupolis, 1862–1946
• Polycarp Demetriades Metropolitan of Prousa, 1892–1953
• Philotheos Stavrides Metropolitan of Proikonnisos, 1882–1963
• Adamantios Kasapides Metropolitan of Pergamon, 1909–1958
• Cyril Axiotis Metropolitan of Chaldea, 1908–1991

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 9 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

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

Bishops he consecrated 11

• 16 June 1946Maximos Tsaouses Metropolitan of Sardis, 1914–1986
• 6 October 1946Gerasimos Kalokairnos Bishop of Pamphilos, d. 1972
• 4 May 1947Gregory Markopoulos Bishop of Daphnousia, d. 1979
• 24 August 1947Theophylaktos Papathanasopoulos Metropolitan of Australia and New Zealand, 1891–1958
• 2 December 1951Kallinikos Zeles Bishop of Argyropolis, 1903–1985
• 17 November 1957Gabriel Kalokairinos Metropolitan of Thera, Amorgos and Nisoi, 1910–1983
• 23 June 1963Andrew Pantoleontos Former Bishop of Claudiopolis, 1911–1978
• 16 January 1972Constantine Charisiades Metropolitan of Nicaea, 1929–2021
• 23 September 1973Joachim Nerantzoules Senior Metropolitan of Nicomedia, 1942–2023
• 25 December 1973Bartholomew I Archondonis Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, b. 1940
• 23 February 1975George Orphanides Metropolitan of Karpathos and Kasos, 1918–1991