Cyril Axiotis

Life

Born

1908

Ordained deacon

25 March 1932

Ordained priest

21 February 1937

Made archimandrite

28 February 1937

Consecrated bishop

10 October 1943

Made metropolitan

10 October 1943

Died

1 May 1991

Sees

1. 10 October 1943 – 1 May 1991

   Metropolitan of Chaldea

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 10 October 1943 by:

• Maximos V Vaportzes Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1897–1972
• Thomas Savvopoulos Senior Metropolitan of Chalcedon, 1889–1996
• Leontios Liverios Metropolitan of Theodoroupolis, 1872–1964
• Constantine Alatopoulos Metropolitan of Irinoupolis, 1892–1961
• Meletios Loukakes Metropolitan of Christoupolis, 1862–1946
• Dorotheos Georgiades Metropolitan of the Princes' Islands, 1891–1974
• Emilianos Papademetriou Metropolitan of Philadelphia, 1892–1946

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 4 generations back to Paisios; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Cyril Axiotis Metropolitan of Chaldea consecrated 10 October 1943
2. Leontios Liverios Metropolitan of Theodoroupolis, 1872–1964 consecrated 6 November 1906
3. Stephen Soulides Metropolitan of Methymna, 1847–1915 consecrated 4 October 1887
4. Paisios Kourentis/Panagiotides Metropolitan of Imbros, 1830–1904 consecrated 22 December 1863
5. Paisios Metropolitan of Ephesus, 1778–1877 consecrated ca. 1819

Bishops he consecrated 9

• 7 May 1944Chrysostom Koronaios Metropolitan of Neocaesarea, 1894–1976
• 9 June 1946Maximos Georgiades Metropolitan of Laodicea, 1908–1979
• 16 June 1946Maximos Tsaouses Metropolitan of Sardis, 1914–1986
• 24 August 1947Theophylaktos Papathanasopoulos Metropolitan of Australia and New Zealand, 1891–1958
• 30 November 1950Meliton Hatzis Senior Metropolitan of Chalcedon, 1913–1989
• 2 December 1950Isidore Aedonopoulos Metropolitan of Leros, Kalymnos and Astypalea, 1911–1983
• 4 February 1951Andrew Lagouros Former Bishop of Troas, d. 1987
• 28 June 1953Meletios Karabinis Metropolitan of France, 1914–1993
• 1964Nicholas Koutroumbes Metropolitan of Aneon, 1903–1972

Sources

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