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Former Hierarchs of the Ecumenical Patriarchate
(In alphabetical order)


DECEASED HIERARCHS

His Eminence Hieronymos
Metropolitan of Rodopolis
 
Date of Consecration: January 28, 1951
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 
 

His Grace Hierotheos
Bishop of Miletopoulos
 
Date of Death: February 1, 1956
Date of Consecration: December 9, 1913
Date of Election: 1913
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 
 

His Eminence Iakovos
Former Archbishop of North and South America
 
Date of Enthronement as Archbishop of America: April 1, 1959
Date of Consecration: February 6, 1955
Date of Death: April 10, 2005
Name Day: October 23
 
Biography
 
 

His Eminence Iakovos
Senior Metropolitan of Derka
 
Date of Consecration:
Date of Election:
Date of Death: 1980
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 
 

His Eminence Iakovos
Metropolitan of Christoupolis
 
Date of Death: December 17, 1976
Date of Consecration: May 13, 1956
Date of Election: April 5, 1956
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 
 

His Eminence Ioakim
Senior Metropolitan of Derka
 
Date of Death: January 23, 1950
Date of Consecration: June 27, 1926
Date of Election: June 24, 1926
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 
 

His Grace John
Bishop of Nyssa
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese under the Ecumenical Patriarchate
 
Date of Death: August 8, 1946
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 
 
 
 

His Eminence Kallistos
Bishop of Zila
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

His Grace Kosmas
Bishop of Derbi
 
Date of Death:
Date of Consecration: 1965
Date of Election: 1965
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 
 

His Eminence Kyrillos
Metropolitan of Chaldea
 
Date of Consecration: October 10, 1943
Date of Death: May 1, 1991
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 
 

His Eminence Kyrillos
Metropolitan of Gortyna and Arkadia
 
Date of Consecration: February 16, 1975
Date of Death: 2005
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 
 
 

His Grace Matthew
Bishop of Aspendos
 
Date of Consecration: November 16, 1938
Date of Death: 1985
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 
 
 

His Eminence Maximos
Metropolitan of Sardes
 
Date of Consecration: 1946
Date of Death: 1986
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 
 
 

His Eminence Maximos
Metropolitan of Stavroupolis
 
Date of Consecration: February 26, 1961
Date of Election: February 1961
Date of Death: January 5, 1991
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 
 

Meletios
His All Holiness Meletios
Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome,
Ecumenical Patriarch
 
Date of Death: July 28, 1935
Date of Election as Patriarch of Alexandria: 1926
Date of Election as Patriarch of Constantinople: November 27, 1921
Date of Elevation to Archbishop of Athens: 1918
Date of Consecration: 1910
Date of Monastic Tonsure: 1892
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 

His Eminence Meletios
Metropolitan of France
 
Date of Consecration: June 27, 1953
Date of Death: April 19, 1993
 
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 
 
 

His Eminence Meletios
Metropolitan of Patara
 
Date of Elevation to Metropolitan: 1961
Date of Consecration: 1908
Date of Election: 1908
Date of Death: 1967
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 

His Grace Meletios
Bishop of Christianoupolis
Assistant Bishop of the Archdiocese of America
 
Date of Consecration: 1960
Date of Election: 1960
Date of Death:
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 

His Eminence Meliton
Senior Metropolitan of Chalcedon
 
Date of Consecration: November 30, 1950
Date of Death: December 1989
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 
 

His Eminence Methodios
Metropolitan of Pisidia
 
Date of Consecration: November 29, 1968
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 
 
 

His Grace Methodios
Bishop of Kampania
Assistant of the Archdiocese of the Russian Orthodox Parishes in Western Europe under the Ecumenical Patriarchate
 
Date of Death: April 1974
Date of Consecration:
Date of Election:
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 

His Eminence Michael
Archbishop of North and South America
 
Biography
 
Articles
 
 
 
 

His Eminence Nikiforos
Metropolitan of Kydonia and Apokronos
 
Date of Death: 1974
Date of Consecration:
Date of Election:
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 
 

His Excellency Paul
Archbishop
Exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Parishes of Western Europe under the Ecumenical Patriarchate
 
Date of Consecration: 1957
Date of Death: January 21, 1979
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 
 

His Grace Paul
Bishop of Nazianze
 
Date of Consecration: March 15, 1970
Date of Death: January 31, 1984
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 
 
 

His Eminence Philip
Metropolitan of Tyana
 
Date of Death: October 18, 1997
Date of Consecration: March 11, 1984
Date of Consecration: February 28, 1984
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 
 

His Grace Philip
Bishop of Atlanta
 
Date of Consecratin: August 1, 1982
Name Day: November 14
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
Articles
 
 
 

His Eminence Philotheos
Metropolitan of Prikonnisos
 
Date of Consecration:
Date of Election:
Date of Death:
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 
 

His Eminence Photios
Metropolitan of the Senior See of Heraclia
 
Date of Consecration: June 28, 1959
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 
 
 

His Eminence Polyevktos
Metropolitan of Aneon
 
Date of Consecration: November 3, 1955
Date of Election: October 11, 1955
Date of Death: February 1, 1988
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 
 

His Grace Roman
Bishop of Keramon
Assistant of the Archdiocese of the Russian Orthodox Parishes in Western Europe under the Ecumenical Patriarchate
 
Date of Consecration: October 10, 1971
Date of Death: September 1, 1995
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 
 

His Excellency Serge
Archbishop of Eukarpia
Exarch of the Orthodox Parishesof Russian tradition under the Ecumenical Patriarchate
 
Date of Consecration: June 27, 1993
Date of Election: June 8, 1993
Date of Death: January 22, 2003
 
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 

His Eminence Silas
Metropoltian of Saranta Ecclesies
 
Date of Election: September 13, 1960
Date of Consecration: October 9, 1960
Name Day: July 30
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 
 

His Eminence Spyridon
Metropolitan of Rhodes
 
Date of Elevation to Metropolitan of Rhodes: January 25, 1951
Date of Consecration: November 18, 1945
Date of Election: November 15, 1945
Date of Death: April 29, 1988
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 

His Grace Stefan
Bishop of Patara
Assistant of the Archdiocese of the Russian Orthodox Parishes in Western Europe under the Ecumenical Patriarchate
 
Date of Consecration: May 7, 1972
Date of Election: June 30, 1971
Name Day : December 27
Date of Death: January 29, 1979
 
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 

His Eminence Symeon
Senior Metropolitan of Nicomedia
 
Date of Consecration: April 26, 1964
Date of Election: April 21, 1964
Date of Death: October 18, 2003
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 
 

His Eminence Theodoros
Metropolitan of Rethymnon and Avlopotomos
 
Date of Death: 1996
Date of Consecration: 1975
Date of Election: 1975
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 
 

His Grace Theodosios
Bishop of Angos
Assistant Bishop of the Archdiocese of America
 
Date of Consecration: 1960
Date of Election: 1960
Date of Death:
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 

His Eminence Theofylaktos
Metropolitan of Australia
 
Date of Death: August 2, 1958
Date of Consecration:
Date of Election: April 22, 1947
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 

His Eminence Theoklitos
Metropolitan of Metra and Athyra
 
Date of Consecration: November 18, 1977
Date of Election: May 17, 1977
Date of Death: April 22, 2004
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 
 

His Eminence Thomas
Senior Metropolitan of Chalcedon
 
Date of Death: October 18, 1966
Date of Consecration: 1922
Date of Election: February 19, 1922
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 
 
 

His Eminence Timotheos
Metropolitan of Rhodes
 
Date of Death:
Date of Consecration:
Date of Election:
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 

His Eminence Timotheos III
Archbishop of Crete
 
Date of Election as Archbishop of Crete: March 10, 1978
Date of Consecration: August 26, 1956
 
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 
 

His Grace Timotheos
Bishop of Miletoupolis
Assistant of the Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain
 
Date of Death: January 20, 1999
Date of Consecration: March 19, 1977
Date of Consecration: March 8, 1977
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 

His Grace Timothy
Bishop of Detroit
 
Date of Consecration: January 20, 1974
Name Day: January 22
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 
 

His Eminence Titos
Metropolitan of Rethymnon and Avlopotamos
 
Date of Consecration: May 17, 1970
Date of Election: April 1970
Date of Death: September 11, 1987
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 
 

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His Excellency Vsevolod
Archbishop of Scopelos
 
Date of Death: December 16, 2007
Date of Consecration: September 27, 1987
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 

His Excellency Vladimir
Metropolitan
Exarch of the Russian Orthodox Parishes of Western Europe under the Ecumenical Patriarchate
 
Date of Death: December 18, 1959
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 
 
 

His Grace Vlassios
Bishop of Claudioupolis
Assistant Bishop of the Archdiocese of France
 
Date of Consecration: October 15, 1978
Date of Election: September 7, 1978
Date of Death: June 2, 1985
 
Biography
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 
 
 

His Eminence Wasyly
Archbishop of Winnipeg and Central Diocese,
Metropolitan of All Canada,
Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada
 
Date of Death: January 10, 2005
Date of Elevation to Metropolitan: 1985
Date of Consecration: 1978
 
Encyclicals and Pastoral Letters
 
 

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