Constantine Poulos

Life

Born

1912

Ordained deacon

1941

Ordained priest

1941

Consecrated bishop

13 November 1957

Died

28 July 1994

Sees

1. 13 November 1957 – 13 July 1974

   Metropolitan of Didymoteixon and Orestias

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 13 July 1974 – 28 July 1994

   Metropolitan of No See

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 13 November 1957 by:

• Theokletos II Panagiotopoulos Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1889–1962
• Hierotheos Paraskevopoulos Metropolitan of Aitolia and Acarnania, 1877–1961
• Iakovos III Vavanatsos Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1895–1984
• Dionysios Papanikolopoulos Metropolitan of Edessa and Pella, 1888–1968
• Iakovos Kleomvrotos Metropolitan of Mytilini, Eressos and Plomarion, 1907–1987

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 6 generations back to Paisios; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Constantine Poulos Metropolitan of Didymoteixon and Orestias consecrated 13 November 1957
2. Iakovos III Vavanatsos Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1895–1984 consecrated 11 January 1935
3. Constantine Mengrelis/Mingrelis Metropolitan of Serrai and Nigrita, 1886–1963 consecrated 16 March 1914
4. Cyril Moumtzes Metropolitan of Philadelphia, 1867–1925 consecrated 18 May 1897
5. Basil III Georgiades Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1840–1929 consecrated 24 September 1889
6. Paisios Kourentis/Panagiotides Metropolitan of Imbros, 1830–1904 consecrated 22 December 1863
7. Paisios Metropolitan of Ephesus, 1778–1877 consecrated ca. 1819

Bishops he consecrated 7

• 14 May 1967Hieronymos I Cotsonis Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1905–1988
• 7 June 1967John Papalis Metropolitan of Siderokastron, 1914–2001
• 8 June 1967Nikodemos Graikos Metropolitan of Thebes and Levadeia, 1908–1996
• 25 June 1967Kallinikos Poulos Metropolitan of Edessa, Pella and Almopia, 1918–1984
• 17 September 1967Demetrios Trakatellis Archbishop of America, b. 1928
• 4 December 1967Sebastian Aspiotes Metropolitan of Elassona, 1913–1999
• 24 November 1968Paul Giannikopoulos Metropolitan of Veroia and Naousa, 1929–1993