Ignatios Samaán

Life

Born

1975

Ordained deacon

20 December 1999

Ordained priest

12 September 2001

Consecrated bishop

10 July 2011

Made metropolitan

4 October 2017

Sees

1. 10 July 2011 – 4 October 2017

   Bishop of Caesarea

   Vicar of Mexico · Patriarchate of Antioch

2. 4 October 2017 – present

   Metropolitan of Mexico, Venezuela, Central America and the Islands of the Caribbean Sea

   Patriarchate of Antioch

Consecration

Consecrated 10 July 2011 by:

• Ignatios IV Hazim Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, 1920–2012
• Anthony Chedraoui Metropolitan of Mexico, 1932–2017
• Elias Kfoury Metropolitan of Tyre, Sidon and Dependencies, b. 1947
• George Abu Zakhem Metropolitan of Homs (Emessa) and Dependencies, cons. 1988
• Sergios Abad Metropolitan of Santiago and All Chile, cons. 1988
• Damaskinos Mansour Metropolitan of São Paulo and All Brazil, b. 1949
• Basil Mansour Metropolitan of Akkar and Dependencies, b. 1962
• John X Yazigi Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, b. 1955
• Saba Isber Metropolitan of Bostra, Hawran and Jabal el-Arab, b. 1959
• Paul Yazigi Metropolitan of Aleppo, Alexandretta (İskenderun) and Dependencies, b. 1959
• Moussa El-Khoury Bishop of Daraya, b. 1953
• Ghattas Hazim Metropolitan of Baghdad, Kuwait and Dependencies, b. 1963
• Luke El-Khoury Bishop of Saydnaya, 1965–2021

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 1 generation back to Ignatios IV Hazim; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Ignatios Samaán Metropolitan of Mexico, Venezuela, Central America and the Islands of the Caribbean Sea consecrated 10 July 2011
2. Ignatios IV Hazim Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, 1920–2012 consecrated 18 February 1962

Bishops he consecrated 1

• 25 October 2020Athenagoras Perez Galvis Bishop of Myrine, cons. 2020