Sebastian Aspiotes

Life

Born

1913

Ordained deacon

1943

Ordained priest

1943

Consecrated bishop

4 December 1967

Retired

1995

Died

11 February 1999

Sees

1. 4 December 1967 – 13 June 1995

   Metropolitan of Elassona

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 13 June 1995 – 11 February 1999

   Former Metropolitan of Elassona

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 4 December 1967 by:

• Hieronymos I Cotsonis Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1905–1988
• Dionysios Charalampous Metropolitan of Trikki and Stagoi, 1905–1970
• Stylianos Kornaros Former Metropolitan of Nikopolis and Preveza, 1912–1999
• Meletios Galanopoulos Metropolitan of Kythira, 1892–1972
• Constantine Poulos Metropolitan of Didymoteixon and Orestias, 1912–1994

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. Sebastian Aspiotes Metropolitan of Elassona consecrated 4 December 1967
2. Constantine Poulos Metropolitan of Didymoteixon and Orestias, 1912–1994 consecrated 13 November 1957
3. Iakovos III Vavanatsos Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, 1895–1984 consecrated 11 January 1935
4. Constantine Mengrelis/Mingrelis Metropolitan of Serrai and Nigrita, 1886–1963 consecrated 16 March 1914
5. Cyril Moumtzes Metropolitan of Philadelphia, 1867–1925 consecrated 18 May 1897
6. Basil III Georgiades Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch, 1840–1929 consecrated 24 September 1889
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 2

• 26 May 1974Dionysios Ladopoulos Metropolitan of Neapolis and Stavroupolis, 1929–2008
• 28 January 1979Nicholas Drosos Metropolitan of Karpenision, 1929–2019

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr

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