Sebastian Skordallos

Life

Born

1955

Ordained deacon

17 January 1974

Ordained priest

4 March 1978

Consecrated bishop

17 December 2011

Made metropolitan

2 December 2024

Sees

1. 17 December 2011 – 2 December 2024

   Bishop of Zela

   Vicar of America · Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 2 December 2024 – present

   Metropolitan of Atlanta

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 17 December 2011 by:

• Iakovos Garmatis Metropolitan of Chicago, 1928–2017
• Alexios Panagiotopoulos Metropolitan of Atlanta, b. 1943
• Savvas Zembillas Metropolitan of Pittsburgh, b. 1957
• Demetrios Kantzavelos Bishop of Mokissos, b. 1962

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 12 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Sebastian Skordallos Metropolitan of Atlanta consecrated 17 December 2011
2. Savvas Zembillas Metropolitan of Pittsburgh, b. 1957 consecrated 2 February 2002
3. Iakovos Coucouzes Former Archbishop of North and South America, 1911–2005 consecrated 6 February 1955
4. Maximos Tsaouses Metropolitan of Sardis, 1914–1986 consecrated 16 June 1946
5. Polycarp Demetriades Metropolitan of Prousa, 1892–1953 consecrated 25 December 1927
6. Alexander Nemolovsky Metropolitan of Brussels and Belgium, 1876–1960 consecrated 28 November 1909
7. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
8. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
9. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
10. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
11. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
12. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
13. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 5

• 17 March 2018Nathaniel Symeonides Metropolitan of Chicago, b. 1978
• 5 December 2020Timothy Bakakos Bishop of Hexamilion, b. 1952
• 5 June 2021Athenagoras Zeliaskopoulos Metropolitan of New Jersey, b. 1970
• 15 October 2022Konstantinos Morales Metropolitan of Denver, b. 1966
• 13 April 2024Nektarios Papazafeiropoulos Bishop of Diokleia, b. 1985

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr