Gregory Papadopoulos

Life

Ordained priest

30 September 1901

Made archimandrite

30 November 1901

Consecrated bishop

27 September 1909

Made metropolitan

27 September 1909

Retired

26 April 1914

Died

2 December 1936

Sees

1. 27 September 1909 – 26 April 1914

   Metropolitan of Metrai and Athyra

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 26 April 1914 – 2 December 1936

   Former Metropolitan of Metrai and Athyra

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 27 September 1909 by:

• Joachim III Devetzes/Demetriades Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1834–1912
• Philotheos Bryennios Metropolitan of Nicomedia, 1833–1917
• Hieronymos Gorgias/Giourgas Metropolitan of Nicaea, 1837–1910
• Constantine Vallioules/Apostolou/Konstantinides Metropolitan of Pisidia, 1862–1912
• Philaretos Vapheides Metropolitan of Heraclea, 1850–1933
• Sophronios Nestopoulos Metropolitan of Koloneia, 1854–1917
• Dorotheos Chrestides Metropolitan of Koloneia, 1841–1924
• Sophronios Argyropoulos Metropolitan of Proikonnisos, d. 1911
• Tarasios Vasileiou Metropolitan of Heliopolis and Theira, 1835–1915
• Anthimos Anastasiades Metropolitan of Xanthi, 1862–1922

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 5 generations back to Paisios; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Gregory Papadopoulos Metropolitan of Metrai and Athyra consecrated 27 September 1909
2. Constantine Vallioules/Apostolou/Konstantinides Metropolitan of Pisidia, 1862–1912 consecrated 20 July 1895
3. Dionysios Stavrides Metropolitan of Silybria, 1852–1913 consecrated 23 October 1888
4. Kallinikos Metropolitan of Moglen, 1820–1911 consecrated 2 April 1872
5. Paisios Kourentis/Panagiotides Metropolitan of Imbros, 1830–1904 consecrated 22 December 1863
6. Paisios Metropolitan of Ephesus, 1778–1877 consecrated ca. 1819