Polycarp Konstantinides/Chorenos

Life

Born

1834

Consecrated bishop

9 March 1886

Died

2 February 1906

Sees

1. 9 March 1886 – 1891

   Metropolitan of Ganos and Chora

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 1891 – 2 February 1906

   Metropolitan of Varna and Kavarna

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 9 March 1886 by:

• Nikodemos Konstantinides Metropolitan of Cyzicus, 1826–1900
• Prokopios Serraios/Vogiatzes/Despotides Metropolitan of Melenikos, d. 1891
• Parthenios Papaphotinos/Papaphoteinos Metropolitan of Proikonnisos, 1837–1900

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. Polycarp Konstantinides/Chorenos Metropolitan of Varna and Kavarna consecrated 9 March 1886
2. Parthenios Papaphotinos/Papaphoteinos Metropolitan of Proikonnisos, 1837–1900 consecrated 22 May 1875
3. Gerasimos Pegas Metropolitan of Poliana and Vardariotai, 1828–1888 consecrated 8 March 1875
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

Bishops he consecrated 5

• 21 January 1901Nićifor Perić Metropolitan of Raška and Prizren, 1862–1918
• 11 March 1901Joachim Phoropoulos Metropolitan of Pelagonia, 1859–1909
• 8 July 1901Apostolos Christodoulou Metropolitan of Serrai, 1856–1917
• 15 July 1901Michael Kleovoulos Metropolitan of Sardis, 1850–1918
• 23 May 1902Chrysostom Kalafatis Metropolitan of Smyrna, 1867–1922