Basil Samaha

Life

Born

1920

Ordained priest

1945

Consecrated bishop

13 February 1955

Made metropolitan

10 February 1962

Retired

6 May 1999

Died

2 October 2002

Sees

1. 13 February 1955 – 10 February 1962

   Bishop of Sergiopolis

   Patriarchate of Antioch

2. 10 February 1962 – 6 May 1999

   Metropolitan of Bostra

   Patriarchate of Antioch

3. 6 May 1999 – 2 October 2002

   Former Metropolitan of Bostra

   Patriarchate of Antioch

Consecration

Consecrated 13 February 1955 by:

• Alexander III Tahan Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, 1869–1958
• Nephon Saba Metropolitan of Heliopolis, 1890–1966
• Athanasios Kleila Former Metropolitan of Bostra, d. 1960
• Alexander Geha Metropolitan of Homs (Emessa), 1886–1968
• Elias Karam Metropolitan of Byblos, Batroun and Dependencies, 1903–1969
• Photios Khoury Metropolitan of Baghdad, d. 1966
• Meletios Swaity Metropolitan of Buenos Aires and Argentina, 1910–1983

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 7 generations back to Paisios; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Basil Samaha Metropolitan of Bostra consecrated 13 February 1955
2. Nephon Saba Metropolitan of Heliopolis, 1890–1966 consecrated 22 March 1925
3. Raphael Nimer Metropolitan of Aleppo, d. 1949 consecrated 10 October 1912
4. Germanos Strenopoulos Metropolitan of Thyateira and Great Britain, 1872–1951 consecrated 1 July 1912
5. Hierotheos Anthoulides Metropolitan of Sisanion and Siatista, 1877–1920 consecrated 8 October 1906
6. Stephen Soulides Metropolitan of Methymna, 1847–1915 consecrated 4 October 1887
7. Paisios Kourentis/Panagiotides Metropolitan of Imbros, 1830–1904 consecrated 22 December 1863
8. Paisios Metropolitan of Ephesus, 1778–1877 consecrated ca. 1819

Bishops he consecrated 5

• 12 June 1955Dorotheos Filipp Metropolitan of Prague and All the Czech Lands and Slovakia, 1913–1999
• 4 March 1956Mstislav Volonsevich Archbishop of Kirov and Sloboda, 1906–1978
• 20 April 1958Flavian Dmitriyuk Archbishop of Gorky and Arzamas, 1895–1977
• 10 July 1960Nikodim Rotov Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929–1978
• 14 January 1962Leontii Gudimov Metropolitan of Donetsk and Slovyansk, 1928–1992