Emilianos Tsakopoulos

Life

Born

1915

Ordained deacon

1939

Ordained priest

30 December 1951

Made archimandrite

13 January 1952

Consecrated bishop

28 June 1959

Made metropolitan

1964

Died

24 July 1985

Sees

1. 28 June 1959 – 1964

   Bishop of Miletus

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 1964 – 24 July 1985

   Metropolitan of Miletus

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 28 June 1959 by:

• Constantine Alatopoulos Metropolitan of Irinoupolis, 1892–1961
• Philotheos Stavrides Metropolitan of Proikonnisos, 1882–1963
• Iakovos Stefanidis Metropolitan of Iconium, 1916–1965
• Emilianos Zacharopoulos Former Metropolitan of Kos and Nisyros, 1915–2011

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. Emilianos Tsakopoulos Metropolitan of Miletus consecrated 28 June 1959
2. Iakovos Stefanidis Metropolitan of Iconium, 1916–1965 consecrated 7 July 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 2

• 9 August 1964Demetrios I Papadopoulos Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1914–1991
• 6 February 1972Germanos Athanasiades Metropolitan of Theodoroupolis, 1930–2018