Epiphanios Papavasileiou

Life

Born

1885

Monastic tonsure

13 September 1908

Ordained deacon

14 September 1908

Ordained priest

25 December 1911

Made archimandrite

8 October 1914

Consecrated bishop

13 August 1944

Made archbishop

13 August 1944

Died

2 May 1972

Sees

1. 13 August 1944 – 2 May 1972

   Archbishop of Philadelphia

   Patriarchate of Jerusalem

Consecration

Consecrated 13 August 1944 by:

• Timothy I Themeles Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem and All Palestine, 1878–1955
• Basil Lemonides Archbishop of Ashkelon, 1868–1945
• Vissarion Bekiares Archbishop of Thabor, 1884–1974

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 2 generations back to Damian Kasiotes; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Epiphanios Papavasileiou Archbishop of Philadelphia consecrated 13 August 1944
2. Timothy I Themeles Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem and All Palestine, 1878–1955 consecrated 27 August 1921
3. Damian Kasiotes Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem and All Palestine, 1848–1931 consecrated 28 February 1893

Bishops he consecrated 2

• 20 August 1944Philotheos Philippides Archbishop of Eleutheroupolis, 1884–1958
• 26 August 1962Basil Blatsos Metropolitan of Caesarea, 1923–2012