Athanasios Piperas

Life

Ordained priest

9 October 1905

Made archimandrite

26 October 1905

Consecrated bishop

17 May 1909

Made metropolitan

17 May 1909

Died

August 1909

Sees

1. 17 May 1909 – August 1909

   Metropolitan of Serrai

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 17 May 1909 by:

• Joachim III Devetzes/Demetriades Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1834–1912
• Philotheos Bryennios Metropolitan of Nicomedia, 1833–1917
• Constantine Vallioules/Apostolou/Konstantinides Metropolitan of Pisidia, 1862–1912
• Philaretos Vapheides Metropolitan of Heraclea, 1850–1933
• Sophronios Nestopoulos Metropolitan of Koloneia, 1854–1917
• Constantine Delegiannes/Deligiannes Metropolitan of Chios, 1842–1919
• Neophytos Kotzamanides Metropolitan of Ikaria, 1862–1931
• Dorotheos Chrestides Metropolitan of Koloneia, 1841–1924
• Polycarp Varvakes/Vardakis Former Metropolitan of Chios, 1862–1945
• Sophronios Argyropoulos Metropolitan of Proikonnisos, d. 1911
• Tarasios Vasileiou Metropolitan of Heliopolis and Theira, 1835–1915
• Anthimos Anastasiades Metropolitan of Xanthi, 1862–1922

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. Athanasios Piperas Metropolitan of Serrai consecrated 17 May 1909
2. Constantine Vallioules/Apostolou/Konstantinides Metropolitan of Pisidia, 1862–1912 consecrated 20 July 1895
3. Dionysios Stavrides Metropolitan of Silybria, 1852–1913 consecrated 23 October 1888
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