Savvas Zembillas

Life

Born

11 June 1957

Ordained deacon

21 November 1992

Ordained priest

8 January 1995

Made archimandrite

12 November 1996

Consecrated bishop

2 February 2002

Made metropolitan

3 November 2011

Sees

1. 2 February 2002 – 3 November 2011

   Bishop of Troas

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

2. 3 November 2011 – present

   Metropolitan of Pittsburgh

   Patriarchate of Constantinople

Consecration

Consecrated 2 February 2002 by:

• Demetrios Trakatellis Archbishop of America, b. 1928
• Iakovos Coucouzes Former Archbishop of North and South America, 1911–2005
• Iakovos Garmatis Metropolitan of Chicago, 1928–2017
• Kallistos Ware Metropolitan of Diokleia, 1934–2022

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 11 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Savvas Zembillas Metropolitan of Pittsburgh consecrated 2 February 2002
2. Iakovos Coucouzes Former Archbishop of North and South America, 1911–2005 consecrated 6 February 1955
3. Maximos Tsaouses Metropolitan of Sardis, 1914–1986 consecrated 16 June 1946
4. Polycarp Demetriades Metropolitan of Prousa, 1892–1953 consecrated 25 December 1927
5. Alexander Nemolovsky Metropolitan of Brussels and Belgium, 1876–1960 consecrated 28 November 1909
6. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
7. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
8. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
9. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
10. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
11. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
12. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 5

• 17 December 2011Sebastian Skordallos Metropolitan of Atlanta, b. 1955
• 28 September 2012Gregory Tatsis Metropolitan of Nyssa, b. 1958
• 17 March 2018Nathaniel Symeonides Metropolitan of Chicago, b. 1978
• 15 October 2022Konstantinos Morales Metropolitan of Denver, b. 1966
• 28 March 2026Dionysios Anagnostopoulos Bishop of Zenoupolis, b. 1978

Sources

• markmarkou.sites.sch.gr

Also in: Wikidata