Prokopios Georgantopoulos

Life

Born

1932

Ordained deacon

1956

Ordained priest

1960

Consecrated bishop

26 May 1974

Made metropolitan

26 May 1974

Died

6 April 2015

Sees

1. 26 May 1974 – 6 April 2015

   Metropolitan of Nea Smyrni and Kalamaria

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 26 May 1974 by:

• Chrysostom Tavladorakes Metropolitan of Peiraeus, 1909–1977
• Chrysostom Themelis Metropolitan of Messenia, 1918–2007
• Stephen Matakoulias Metropolitan of Triphylia and Olympia, 1915–2007
• Epiphanios Kalaphates Metropolitan of Paronaxia, 1912–1990

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 12 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Prokopios Georgantopoulos Metropolitan of Nea Smyrni and Kalamaria consecrated 26 May 1974
2. Chrysostom Themelis Metropolitan of Messenia, 1918–2007 consecrated 21 November 1957
3. Iakovos Coucouzes Former Archbishop of North and South America, 1911–2005 consecrated 6 February 1955
4. Maximos Tsaouses Metropolitan of Sardis, 1914–1986 consecrated 16 June 1946
5. Polycarp Demetriades Metropolitan of Prousa, 1892–1953 consecrated 25 December 1927
6. Alexander Nemolovsky Metropolitan of Brussels and Belgium, 1876–1960 consecrated 28 November 1909
7. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
8. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
9. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
10. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
11. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
12. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
13. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 3

• 22 August 1976Alexios Michalopoulos 1932–2020
• 28 January 1979Nikephoros Tziphopoulos Metropolitan of Chios, Psara and Oinoussa, 1930–1979
• 18 October 2009Prokopios Petrides Bishop of Christianoupolis, b. 1960

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr

Also in: Wikidata