Germanos Athanasiades

Life

Born

17 September 1930

Ordained deacon

11 October 1953

Ordained priest

15 August 1966

Made archimandrite

29 October 1966

Consecrated bishop

6 February 1972

Made metropolitan

5 February 1987

Died

10 August 2018

Sees

1. 6 February 1972 – 5 February 1987

   Bishop of Arianzos

   Vicar of Derka · Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 5 February 1987 – 10 August 2018

   Metropolitan of Theodoroupolis

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 6 February 1972 by:

• Iakovos Papapaisiou Metropolitan of Derka, 1885–1980
• Chrysostom Koronaios Metropolitan of Neocaesarea, 1894–1976
• Emilianos Tsakopoulos Metropolitan of Miletus, 1915–1985
• Chrysostom Konstantinides Metropolitan of Ephesus, 1921–2006
• Kallinikos Alexandrides Metropolitan of Lystra, 1926–2014

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. Germanos Athanasiades Metropolitan of Theodoroupolis consecrated 6 February 1972
2. Chrysostom Koronaios Metropolitan of Neocaesarea, 1894–1976 consecrated 7 May 1944
3. Polycarp Demetriades Metropolitan of Prousa, 1892–1953 consecrated 25 December 1927
4. Alexander Nemolovsky Metropolitan of Brussels and Belgium, 1876–1960 consecrated 28 November 1909
5. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
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 3

• 3 June 2001Tarasios Anton Metropolitan of Rodopolis, b. 1956
• 25 April 2004Cyril Kogerakis Metropolitan of Rhodes, b. 1964
• 13 March 2011Stephen Dinides Metropolitan of Kallioupolis and Madytos, b. 1968

Sources

Also in: Wikidata