Nephon Saba

Life

Born

1890

Consecrated bishop

22 March 1925

Made metropolitan

22 March 1925

Died

7 September 1966

Sees

1. 22 March 1925 – 7 September 1966

   Metropolitan of Heliopolis and Seleucia

   Patriarchate of Antioch

Consecration

Consecrated 22 March 1925 by:

• Gregory IV Haddad Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, 1859–1928
• Basil Al-Dibs Metropolitan of Arcadia, 1868–1937
• Raphael Nimer Metropolitan of Aleppo, d. 1949

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 6 generations back to Paisios; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Nephon Saba Metropolitan of Heliopolis consecrated 22 March 1925
2. Raphael Nimer Metropolitan of Aleppo, d. 1949 consecrated 10 October 1912
3. Germanos Strenopoulos Metropolitan of Thyateira and Great Britain, 1872–1951 consecrated 1 July 1912
4. Hierotheos Anthoulides Metropolitan of Sisanion and Siatista, 1877–1920 consecrated 8 October 1906
5. Stephen Soulides Metropolitan of Methymna, 1847–1915 consecrated 4 October 1887
6. Paisios Kourentis/Panagiotides Metropolitan of Imbros, 1830–1904 consecrated 22 December 1863
7. Paisios Metropolitan of Ephesus, 1778–1877 consecrated ca. 1819

Bishops he consecrated 3

• 13 February 1955Basil Samaha Metropolitan of Bostra, 1920–2002
• 9 August 1959Stephen Boca Bishop of Žiča, 1916–2003
• 20 March 1960Gabriel Dumian Metropolitan of Laodicea, 1891–1966