Dionysios Psiachas

Life

Born

30 March 1916

Ordained deacon

1941

Ordained priest

15 October 1945

Consecrated bishop

6 December 1959

Made metropolitan

8 January 1970

Died

6 January 2008

Sees

1. 6 December 1959 – 8 January 1970

   Bishop of Nazianzos

   Vicar of Australia · Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 8 January 1970 – 21 July 2003

   Metropolitan of New Zealand

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

3. 21 July 2003 – 6 January 2008

   Metropolitan of Prousa

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 6 December 1959 by:

• Athenagoras Cavadas Archbishop of Thyateira and Great Britain, 1885–1962
• Matthew Siemaszko Bishop of Aspendos, 1894–1985
• Meletios Karabinis Metropolitan of France, 1914–1993
• Chrysostom Tsiter Metropolitan of Austria, 1903–1995
• Iakovos Virvos Metropolitan of Christoupolis, 1901–1976

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 10 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Dionysios Psiachas Metropolitan of Prousa consecrated 6 December 1959
2. Matthew Siemaszko Bishop of Aspendos, 1894–1985 consecrated 29 November 1938
3. Alexander Inozemtsev Metropolitan of Pinsk and Poliske, 1887–1948 consecrated 4 June 1922
4. George Yaroshevskii Metropolitan of Warsaw and Chełm, 1872–1923 consecrated 1 July 1906
5. Vladimir Bogoyavlenskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1848–1918 consecrated 13 June 1888
6. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
7. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
8. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
9. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
10. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
11. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 1

• 21 March 1993Sotirios Trambas Metropolitan of Pisidia, 1929–2022

Sources

Also in: Wikidata