Emmanuel Sigalas

Life

Born

1953

Ordained deacon

1980

Ordained priest

1980

Consecrated bishop

17 October 2009

Made metropolitan

17 October 2009

Died

1 March 2021

Sees

1. 17 October 2009 – 1 March 2021

   Metropolitan of Poliana and Kilkis

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 17 October 2009 by:

• Hieronymos II Liapis Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, b. 1938
• Panteleimon Kalaphates Metropolitan of Xanthi and Peritheorion, b. 1943
• Panteleimon Kalpakides Metropolitan of Veroia, Naousa and Kampania, b. 1945
• Serapheim Papakostas Metropolitan of Kastoria, cons. 1996
• Paul Papalexiou Metropolitan of Servia and Kozani, b. 1942
• Damaskinos Karpathakes Metropolitan of Didymoteixon, Orestias and Soufli, b. 1959
• Basil Kolokas Metropolitan of Elassona, 1953–2014
• Makarios Philotheou Metropolitan of Siderokastron, b. 1952
• Epiphanios Artemes Metropolitan of Thera, Amorgos and Nisoi, 1934–2026
• Paul Apostolides Metropolitan of Drama, 1963–2022
• Chrysostom Stavropoulos Metropolitan of Triphylia and Olympia, b. 1959
• Theophilos Manolatos Metropolitan of Levkada and Ithaki, b. 1963
• Kallinikos Demenopoulos Metropolitan of Paronaxia, b. 1959

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 13 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Emmanuel Sigalas Metropolitan of Poliana and Kilkis consecrated 17 October 2009
2. Serapheim Papakostas Metropolitan of Kastoria, cons. 1996 consecrated 5 October 1996
3. Anthimos Roussas Metropolitan of Thessaloniki, b. 1934 consecrated 14 July 1974
4. Gabriel Kalokairinos Metropolitan of Thera, Amorgos and Nisoi, 1910–1983 consecrated 17 November 1957
5. Maximos Tsaouses Metropolitan of Sardis, 1914–1986 consecrated 16 June 1946
6. Polycarp Demetriades Metropolitan of Prousa, 1892–1953 consecrated 25 December 1927
7. Alexander Nemolovsky Metropolitan of Brussels and Belgium, 1876–1960 consecrated 28 November 1909
8. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
9. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
10. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
11. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
12. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
13. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
14. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 4

• 9 October 2011Gabriel Papanikolaou Metropolitan of Nea Ionia and Philadelphia, b. 1976
• 6 October 2012Chrysostom Tsiringas Metropolitan of Nikopolis and Preveza, b. 1957
• 7 October 2012Theokletos Athanasopoulos Metropolitan of Ierissos, Agion Oros and Ardamerion, b. 1955
• 20 October 2013Nektarios Antonopoulos Metropolitan of Argolis, b. 1952

Sources

Also in: Wikidata