Stephen Boca

Life

Born

21 August 1916

Ordained deacon

1940

Ordained priest

July 1959

Made archimandrite

July 1959

Monastic tonsure

10 July 1959

Consecrated bishop

9 August 1959

Died

4 February 2003

Sees

1. 9 August 1959 – May 1978

   Bishop of Dalmatia

   Patriarchate of Serbia

2. May 1978 – 4 February 2003

   Bishop of Žiča

   Patriarchate of Serbia

Consecration

Consecrated 9 August 1959 by:

• Theodosios VI Abourjaily Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, 1887–1970
• German Đorić Archbishop of Peć, Metropolitan of Belgrade and Karlovci, Patriarch of Serbia, 1899–1991
• Nephon Saba Metropolitan of Heliopolis, 1890–1966
• Valerian Stefanović Bishop of Šumadija, 1908–1976
• Vladislav Mitrović Metropolitan of Dabar-Bosnia, 1913–1992

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. Stephen Boca Bishop of Žiča consecrated 9 August 1959
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 6

• 31 July 1977John Pavlović Metropolitan of Zagreb and Ljubljana, 1936–2014
• 3 September 1978Basil Vadić Bishop of Srem, b. 1946
• 17 September 1978Jefrem Milutinović Bishop of Banja Luka, b. 1944
• May 1985Amfilohije Radović Metropolitan of Montenegro and the Littoral, 1938–2020
• 10 July 1988Chrysostom Stolić Bishop of Žiča, 1939–2012
• 21 July 1991Constantine Đokić Bishop of Central Europe, b. 1946

Sources

Also in: Wikidata